It turns out that it's not just about requesting social media history.

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[–] 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Meanwhile, for US citizens, if you submit to facial recognition, you can literally walk in you the country without showing anyone at all a passport.

Which means they already have every single bit of that data on every American.

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    And/or they don't want as much resistance. "It's fine to save all this info on non-Americans". The road to fascism often creeps slowly.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    That's the split.

    It's only visible to "them ferners what ain't shouldn't be here!" So the Libertarian nuts and conspiracy crackpots that scream about Obama still don't see the surveillance state happening to them because they're already distracted.

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