<story><title>U.S. To Collect Social Media Data on All Immigrants Entering Country</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/us/politics/immigrants-social-media-trump.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>musha68k</author><text>As much as I’ve always loved to come to the US and as fascinating as some US conferences are (e.g. StrangeLoop might be my personal fav) – no international attendee or speaker can be expected to put up with this ever expanding amount of bullshit anymore.&lt;p&gt;If the science community or “our industry” really want to encourage and unlock the magic of diversity we need new venues for a whole lot of conferences either in Canada or the EU.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zenst</author><text>Oh I think you will find the EU is not far behind and in some area&amp;#x27;s further ahead in this orwellian future.  Germany for example on verge of rolling out facial ID recognition and trialing currently: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reuters.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;us-germany-security&amp;#x2F;german-police-test-facial-recognition-cameras-at-berlin-station-idUSKBN1AH4VR&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reuters.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;us-germany-security&amp;#x2F;german-p...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;This with data retention laws imposed upon ISP&amp;#x27;s, they already have all your data, so no need to ask.</text></comment>
<story><title>U.S. To Collect Social Media Data on All Immigrants Entering Country</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/us/politics/immigrants-social-media-trump.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>musha68k</author><text>As much as I’ve always loved to come to the US and as fascinating as some US conferences are (e.g. StrangeLoop might be my personal fav) – no international attendee or speaker can be expected to put up with this ever expanding amount of bullshit anymore.&lt;p&gt;If the science community or “our industry” really want to encourage and unlock the magic of diversity we need new venues for a whole lot of conferences either in Canada or the EU.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>misiti3780</author><text>The law is obviously offensively bad, and I do not support (dual citizen to the US), but I think the bigger problem here is any country can do this now -- and any of them that can get away with doing this will do it. The real solution is get the fuck off facebook.</text></comment>