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The US embassy in Bangkok announced on Monday that all US visa applicants must set their social media accounts to public for screening.

The requirement is effective immediately and aims to enable screening to confirm applicants’ identity and legal admissibility, the embassy posted on its Facebook account.

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[–] riskable@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This is slightly unnerving to me. I mean, all my social media is already public but I post so much and so often, how would they even go through it all?

Me: "You want my social media accounts? Sure! They're all public, and Google says there's over 4.6 million words to go through—I actually had it run through them all to gather the real figures from its database—starting with newsgroups, then phBB forums, Slashdot, Digg, IRC logs, Reddit, Stack Overflow, and loads more. Good luck! I recommend sorting by most viewed and then most upvotes 👍"

Them: "Uh. What are newsgroups?"

Because much of my writing is highly technical, it's not exactly "beach reading" material. So let's assume the customs officer in charge of producing my biography can read it at about 150 WPM...

511 hours or 12.8 weeks if they're only going to read during their 40-hour work schedule. They'd have to spend over three months reading my thoughts.

Imagine the line of people waiting behind me!

[–] greyfrog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 22 hours ago

Just don't go.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Don't worry, it won't be a human going through it, but a horribly biased LLM. Have fun being labeled a terrorist!

[–] riskable@programming.dev 1 points 13 hours ago

Have fun being labeled a terrorist!

A Microsoft AI being put in charge of that would come to that conclusion.

"EXTREME DANGER: This person wants to end software patents! They've been at it for over thirty years!"

[–] quips@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

Just an AI, but its also just totally unenforceable as there’s nothing stopping you from just not providing your accounts.