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Re:Staying with the US Digital Service by kchoudhu on Thursday January 19, 2017 @02:05PM (#13438529)
I've filled out multiple hundreds of pages of visa and immigration forms, and I have never had to tell them what religion I am. Barring the use of country of origin or other specious proxies for religion, the feds still have no idea what religion I am.

Heuristic searches for muslims definitely exist - but they aren't as simple as you make them out to be.

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Re:Staying with the US Digital Service by avn2109 on Thursday January 19, 2017 @05:35PM (#13440114)
They don't get the data for the (existing) Muslim registry by asking you. Just like the Stasi didn't send out a pre-persecution questionnaire to identify Catholics.
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Re:Staying with the US Digital Service by kchoudhu on Thursday January 19, 2017 @08:17PM (#13441007)
I'm not sure the surveillance state is anywhere near as pervasive as you think it is. It's important to realize that you don't yet live on the other side of the iron curtain, and that there is time to save yourself from that fate.
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