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Title: The New Weapon in the Border Guard Arsenal: the Dreaded Google Search
Source:
Wired
URL Source: http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/15-10/st_google
Published: Sep 24, 2007
Author: Ziya Tong
Post Date: 2007-09-24 20:22:41 by Zipporah
Keywords: None
Views: 169
Comments: 12
By Ziya Tong 09.25.07 | 2:00 AM Illustration: Sean McCabe; Google Photo: Getty A Canadian psychotherapist named Andrew Feldmár was barred from the US last year after a border guard discovered he'd written an article about his experience taking LSD in the 1960s. In February, University of Minnesota historian Taner Akçam was detained for hours at the same border — by the Canadians — because Wikipedia described him (inaccurately) as a terrorist. The US government has at least four standard databases to check out wannabe visitors, but none of them contained the derogatory intel on Feldmár. He was damned by Google. It turns out that border officers are allowed to use what they call "open source information" — meaning any and all traces of you online, from Facebook and Flickr to flame wars. Although search engines aren't the first line of border defense (most computers in those little booths don't have Net connections), it's another story at "secondary processing": Get pulled out of line, and you might get Googled. Used to be, the scariest thing you could hear in an interrogation room was the sound of a guard putting on a rubber glove; now it's the quiet click of a mouse on the I'm Feeling Lucky button. The New Weapon in the Border Guard Arsenal: the Dreaded Google Search
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#1. To: Zipporah (#0)
Can't he say he was writing a screenplay?
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According to Wikipedia, I died in 2002.
"He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." - G.K. Chesterton
He was Googled!
I know that's the point, I'm just messing around.
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Well Google doesnt lie ..now does it? :P
What I meant was.. maybe being 'Googled' will take on a new meaning!
As in hunted down by the new Stasi?
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I'm in big trouble. "Bob Wallace (May 29, 1949 - September 20, 2002), was the ninth Microsoft employee, inventor of the term shareware, creator of the word processing program PC-Write, founder of the software company Quicksoft and an "online drug guru" who devoted much time and money into the research of psychedelic drugs. His home in Marin was the location of monthly invitation-only dinners ("Friday night dinners") that were attended by notable people involved in psychedelic drug research[citation needed]. Bob was also noted for ending his Usenet posts with the phrase, "Just my opinion."
"He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." - G.K. Chesterton
yep.. ~
Hmm .. your version left out the questionable sexual issues :P
Now we know why they never stop the illegals, they can't find anything illegal about them by googling.
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Tell me more....this may come in handy.
"He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." - G.K. Chesterton
A Canadian psychotherapist named Andrew Feldmár was barred from the US last year after a border guard discovered he'd written an article about his experience taking LSD in the 1960s.
#2. To: Zipporah (#0)
#3. To: robin (#1)
#4. To: Zipporah (#3)
#5. To: YertleTurtle (#2)
According to Wikipedia, I died in 2002.
#6. To: robin (#4)
#7. To: Zipporah (#6)
#8. To: Zipporah (#5)
Well Google doesnt lie ..now does it? :P
#9. To: robin (#7)
As in hunted down by the new Stasi?
#10. To: YertleTurtle (#8)
#11. To: Zipporah (#9)
#12. To: Zipporah (#10)
Hmm .. your version left out the questionable sexual issues :P
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