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New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 19 hours ago by cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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“To facilitate this vetting, all applicants for F, M and J non-immigrant visas will be asked to adjust the privacy settings on all their social media profiles to ‘public’”, the official said. “The enhanced social media vetting will ensure we are properly screening every single person attempting to visit our country.”

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[–] Photuris@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago

I’m not a privacy expert.

And I know that, sadly, they probably have a lot more data on me than I’d like. Even though I don’t have traditional social media anymore, and I use VPNs to access Lemmy, that’s just normie precaution stuff. Anyway I do have a Google, Apple, accounts and the like.

My question is this: what do you / y’all think about the prospect of “poisoning the well”?

Meaning: you set up multiple traditional social media accounts, generate fake profile photos for them, give them the same real name as you and part of the country as you live in, and have AI chatbots fill ‘em up with generated posts matching a particular “personality profile”?

Would that be an effective countermeasure against this sort of data collection? Increase the noise-to-signal ratio?

Just thinking out loud here.