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Re:U.S. now can ask travelers for Facebook, Twitter handles by iRobbery on Friday June 02, 2017 @12:09PM (#14470955)
for real? i mean isn't that something those secret agencies should have done so already by fancy machine learning and stuff?

And i remember, if you ask something, like a phone-number (of a girl in a club), you don't always get the proper information!

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Re:U.S. now can ask travelers for Facebook, Twitter handles by stevenwoo on Friday June 02, 2017 @12:36PM (#14471214)
They missed the San Bernadino female's online posting of support for jihad on Facebook, pre-immigration to America. It's seems as if it's the case of scouring the wrong data/too much data (i.e. NSA collecting every telephone call in the USA at this time, while vetting did not look at immigrant social media background so the machine learning would never have helped if it wasn't pointed at the right data source or able to choose the data source) https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/us/san-bernardino-attacks...
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