Thumbs up, or thumbs down: that's the option presented to analysts when the tool Giant Oak Search Technology surfaces content from social media and other sources for ICE to scrutinize.
Please contact your representatives local and national representatives I know it seems like screaming into the void, but it’s the best thing I think everyone can do rather quickly especially with the help of the eff and aclu.
Yeah I mean I basically just try to convince people I know IRL and vote against anyone I can who supports/voted for this stuff. Definitely sucks but do what you can.
If the federales are after you, there isn’t much you can do to stop them from eventually figuring out who the fuck you are and getting access to your shit. However, stuff like this you can combat but people don’t usually like the answer. Do what’s right for you and your situation. That being said…
Delete all your IRL social media accounts, all of them. Make up a username that isn’t associated with anything IRL, make sure you set up all your accounts with a random 20 digit password or passphrase that is difficult to crack, upgrade your security settings on your browser to automatically disable the loading of javascript and other media elements that are used to track you, don’t use google switch to duckduckgo, don’t use windows switch to linux and finally, make sure all of your personal data is backed up in cold storage on a USB or drive that has a manual switch to turn on and off when you need to access it. I also encrypt all my drives with a 32 bit encryption.
That’s all good, but then in this same situation agents would find nothing about you at all and “thumbs down” you because you are obviously hiding something.
In this particular case it’s because visa applicants aren’t US citizens, so they’re subject to immigration law which is massively intrusive.
My gf applied for an American tourist visa and had to show bank statements, explain where she’s going and why, get a letter from her employer showing her job is stable, and report every name, job, degree, and home she’d lived in for the last number of years. It was intense.
But we Americans probably want this level of scrutiny because once foreigners are on US soil it’s tough to find the ones who disappear and dont leave when the time’s up.
Social media may very well reveal false visa application details.
This, warrantless searches, patriot act shenanigans, endless other revelations and sadly no one cares
I feel helpless to do much against it. Even the best effort seems to prolong the inevitable. I know I’m not helping, but I try not to exacerbate.
Appreciate you speaking up!
Please contact your representatives local and national representatives I know it seems like screaming into the void, but it’s the best thing I think everyone can do rather quickly especially with the help of the eff and aclu.
Yeah I mean I basically just try to convince people I know IRL and vote against anyone I can who supports/voted for this stuff. Definitely sucks but do what you can.
If the federales are after you, there isn’t much you can do to stop them from eventually figuring out who the fuck you are and getting access to your shit. However, stuff like this you can combat but people don’t usually like the answer. Do what’s right for you and your situation. That being said…
Delete all your IRL social media accounts, all of them. Make up a username that isn’t associated with anything IRL, make sure you set up all your accounts with a random 20 digit password or passphrase that is difficult to crack, upgrade your security settings on your browser to automatically disable the loading of javascript and other media elements that are used to track you, don’t use google switch to duckduckgo, don’t use windows switch to linux and finally, make sure all of your personal data is backed up in cold storage on a USB or drive that has a manual switch to turn on and off when you need to access it. I also encrypt all my drives with a 32 bit encryption.
Are you missing a couple of zeros on that encryption?..
That’s all good, but then in this same situation agents would find nothing about you at all and “thumbs down” you because you are obviously hiding something.
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In this particular case it’s because visa applicants aren’t US citizens, so they’re subject to immigration law which is massively intrusive.
My gf applied for an American tourist visa and had to show bank statements, explain where she’s going and why, get a letter from her employer showing her job is stable, and report every name, job, degree, and home she’d lived in for the last number of years. It was intense.
But we Americans probably want this level of scrutiny because once foreigners are on US soil it’s tough to find the ones who disappear and dont leave when the time’s up.
Social media may very well reveal false visa application details.