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Re:German Girl Turned Away at Border Due to Private Facebook... by acchow on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @12:43AM (#5866563)
How do you infer someone's citizenship from their FB profile?
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Re:German Girl Turned Away at Border Due to Private Facebook... by einhverfr on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @02:35AM (#5866838)
Well, only 15% of profiles are by Americans, so if you have an FB profile there is an 85% chance you are not an American. That's a bit above the 51% confidence the NSA requires ;-)
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Re:German Girl Turned Away at Border Due to Private Facebook... by Confusion on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @02:20AM (#5866792)
They don't need to infer citizenship from an FB profile. They already know who the FB profile belongs to and what the nationality of that person is.
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