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What happens if you declare that you don't have any social media accounts? There are already forms that ask for social media info, e.g. student visa applicatio

by flotzam 9mo ago

What happens if you declare that you don't have any social media accounts? There are already forms that ask for social media info, e.g. student visa applications. Surely some of the applicants just don't have any social media profiles. Maybe some of them are reading this. I'm curious about their experiences.

embedding-shape 9mo ago
Then they'll do a quick lookup to confirm if you actually don't have any accounts, and if they find any, they'll reject you because you lied. US agencies already are keeping track of what individuals have what online accounts, so they're asking to confirm, not to learn. If you truly don't have social media, their search won't show any hits, and there isn't much you can do about it. Just make sure you're actually answering the question truthfully.
- huhtenberg 9mo ago
  How exactly are they going to link accounts with no real names, personal info or identifiable emails to a person?
  - andsoitis 9mo ago
    The answer to that question doesn’t change the sage advice to not lie.
  - embedding-shape 9mo ago
    Literally all data coming in/out of the US (lots of it, even between other countries sometimes routes in-between US network transit points) is kept, and considering the possibilities that just private companies have today by dealing with data brokers and others offering "social media protection" (or whatever they call it today), it's hard to even imagine what the government and its agencies can do. Did we really forgot about what happened back in 2013 so quickly? Did people assume all these agencies suddenly stopped doing what they've been doing for decades? Nothing you do on the internet with regular network connections are hidden to these entities, don't live falsely under the impression that you can.
  - flotzam 9mo ago
    Probably by the phone number used for account verification, in many cases The anime avi posters will have to level up their OPSEC

by flotzam 9mo ago

embedding-shape 9mo ago

Then they'll do a quick lookup to confirm if you actually don't have any accounts, and if they find any, they'll reject you because you lied. US agencies already are keeping track of what individuals have what online accounts, so they're asking to confirm, not to learn. If you truly don't have social media, their search won't show any hits, and there isn't much you can do about it. Just make sure you're actually answering the question truthfully.

huhtenberg 9mo ago
How exactly are they going to link accounts with no real names, personal info or identifiable emails to a person?
- andsoitis 9mo ago
  The answer to that question doesn’t change the sage advice to not lie.
- embedding-shape 9mo ago
  Literally all data coming in/out of the US (lots of it, even between other countries sometimes routes in-between US network transit points) is kept, and considering the possibilities that just private companies have today by dealing with data brokers and others offering "social media protection" (or whatever they call it today), it's hard to even imagine what the government and its agencies can do. Did we really forgot about what happened back in 2013 so quickly? Did people assume all these agencies suddenly stopped doing what they've been doing for decades? Nothing you do on the internet with regular network connections are hidden to these entities, don't live falsely under the impression that you can.
- flotzam 9mo ago
  Probably by the phone number used for account verification, in many cases The anime avi posters will have to level up their OPSEC