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Not really. Basically a social profile can help clear a person but a lack of one wouldn't condemn a person. There's precedent in the Single Scope Background check process for Top Secret clearances: a lack of data just means more weight will be given to other factors. You aren't punished for a lack of data. This is common when people might not yet have a credit history.

However, this policy is entirely dumb because social media profiles will be created specifically for travelers to be 'clean.'




> because social media profiles will be created specifically for travelers to be 'clean.'

I imagine that in future we will hear about travelers being denied entry because they- "fraudulently stated wrong social media accounts"... or something like that.


I agree this is a likely practical outcome, but the datapoint itself is troubling; I can just as easily imagine a binary interpretation of social/antisocial.




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