Denied Entrance Into The US Thanks To A Google Search Of Your Permanent Record
from the think-of-all-those-myspace-kids-who-will-never-be-able-to-travel dept
For a long time, people have talked about how Google has effectively created the infamous "permanent record" teachers always warned us about in school. And, now, it appears that it's not just being used for background checks on dates and job reference checks, but for official government purposes as well. Joe McEnaney writes in to alert us to a story of a Canadian man who was denied entrance to the US after border guards did a Google search on his name and discovered a peer-reviewed academic paper he'd written years earlier that mentioned his own LSD use over 30 years ago. Setting aside any thoughts one way or the other on whether or not that should be a criteria for entering the US, just think of what this means for teens today who are discussing their lives very publicly on sites like MySpace. We've already wondered what will happen once the MySpace generation runs for office, but right now they might just want to be careful leaving and entering the country.
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Wth
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Far as I'm concerned it's too easy to get in the US as it is. Let's at least keep the most apparently stupid people out.
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Besides...most brightest individuals I know used LSD 30 years ago.
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and lsd wasnt even illegal then
coincidentally a few months after this incident, the rolling stones arrived for their tour of america. keith richards with them. not only has he admitted using drugs, but had been arrested and convicted for drug offences. so maybe keith didnt show up in their google search?
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Seems to me they were just looking for a reason to keep this person out of the US.
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Lead by example
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Paco 1, Canucks 0
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- 'Dubya' and anyone that voted for him.
- Anyone that works for the RIAA, MPAA, or any other such association, and their affiliated record labels and studios.
- The senator that said the internet is 'a series of tubes'.
- The judge that thought he could sentence a criminal to probation in another country.
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Guess it justifies their jobs.
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Did you even bother to read the story?
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No, screw you
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Thanks Noob, cause you have too much freetime, they are probably going to do google searches on everyone now.
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When you really want revenge...
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head of the line
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Double speak...
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I may be waxing overly philosophical, but what is an upright life?
Are our preachers, priests, and mullahs really "upright" people because they dress in robes and rant against "sin"?
A not-so-long while back, "upright" also included owning a dozens of slaves at your ranch.
Can we really judge what's right for another person if we change our definition of right every few years?
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Hey you! Outta the pool!
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Another example
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/360827,CST-NWS-essay27.article
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Internet Caching
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
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Re: TSA?...I don't think so
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Bush - deported to Iraq!
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Sometimes, they may not like your answers so they send you to secondary inspection. Other times, the computer will randomly pick that vehicle for secondary inspection (that's happened to me and the border agent even apologized).
They tag your car and you drive over to secondary. You get out and walk into secondary. Again, they will take your id, ask more questions. Meanwhile, agents are 'inspecting' your vehicle. More often than not, they let you go.
Those other times, they will do more in-depth research, using whatever means possible. Your entry into any country is at the discretion of the customs/border agents.
Type "Andrew Feldmar LSD" into Google and the very first hit should be Mr. Feldmar's paper. The war on drugs claims another 'victim". Meanwhile, Customs had no problems letting in all of the 9/11 terrorists. Is America any safer because Mr. Feldmar was refused entry?
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LSD/Myspace/Cowards
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Urban Myth
1. If it were true, it would be predicated on everything posted to the internet being 100% factual.
2. Writing an academic thesis on using LSD doesn't mean the author has any domain expertise in this area nor does it mean the author is admitting/confessing to anything the author put in writing. Think back to the drug user turned #1 Best Selling Author and Oprah Fan who turned out to be a big phoney.
So...if our border patrol/customs officers have the latitude to deny entry to an individual without cause, then doing a Google search on this guys name wasn't necessary. On the other hand if they needed solid, concrete, indisputable evidence that this guy has violated one of our laws, then I seriously doubt doing a Google search and finding a thesis posting would be sufficient evidence to deny entry into the US.
All the makings of a good old fashioned urban myth designed to stir up controversy and get peoples shorts in a wad.
I need to see some more "facts' on this one!
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Re: Bush - deported to Iraq!
You Dems are approaching the level of the Nazi Party in pre-war Germany. They didn't like the governmental process in place so they changed it. Just because the guy you wanted to wini the White House didn't take it, tough. Get over it or GET OUT!
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Denied Entrance
Think about it, this is not something that has affected one individual wanting to visit from Canada. It is really about everything posted on the web, being on the web and in some server, forever including our posted comments. Just imagine "My Space" never going away. Just imagine your email and this email never going away. That is what it really is about. The people you post anything about them selves on the web affectively give up control of the information. Try doing a Google search of your name, or address, or phone number, or any other little piece of your personal life and see what you find, maybe nothing if your lucky or maybe something you wish you had never written in the first place.
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permanent records
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Re: by SF on Apr 27th, 2007 @ 7:06pm
Anyone that is not able to recall that Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska made that comment, move to the head of the line.
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Just change your name to something common
love and peace
-cheez
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googly-eyed authoritarians
This proves that there is no longer a need to imbed RFID chips in the citizenry; we can just post their entire history on google, myspace, or better yet, wiki - the epitome of truth-ful-ish-ness.
...damn dirty draft-dodging hippies. - Busted!
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You would be surprised at the amount of information that is already (by law) available to the public that is slowly being published via the internet to make it more readily available.
As attractive as the internet's search capabilities are, it is an extremely poor (aka last resort) source to site information from...and that information should be used with a great deal of caution, treat it as highly suspect.
Knowing this, I have no problem with the information available on me being around for a billion years on the internet. It will be anyway! If the internet was never invented, the same information would STILL be publically available, it just involves a lot more leg work visiting courthouses, libraries and churches.
So I'm sticking to my guns. This is probably a myth. As far as my internet info being permanently recorded...whoop-dee-do, it is anyway.
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Re: Wth
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---I hate politicians....They screw up so many things...Like my life...and I hate actors for that and a lot of other reasons....
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Irritated the guard
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that's why
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Drugs!
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1984
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Why bring up Bush?
What's sorely missing here are facts. We have a lot of conjecture with no significant substance. Some guy wanted in the U.S. The Border guards said NO. I'm still waiting to see proof the guards said NO because of what came up when they Googled him. Then I'd like to see where it's written that Googling unrestricted, publically available sites can be used to deny access to someone wanting in the U.S. I find that R E A L L Y H A R D to believe.
Makes for interesting blogging though, doesn't it.
(except when people drag politics into it...kinda knocks the wind out of the sails...then it's not fun anymore.)
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Rosie called. She wants her penis back. Fu(ktard.
"At some future time the melting point will be reached and either there will be a civil revolt here in the U.S., or other countries will rise up and take over the U.S. so that we will not further spread over the rest of the world."
You libs (or stupid kids, or both seeing as they're the same voter base) have brainwashed yourselves into actually believing that Bush is a dictator-for-life. He's gone in '08. Will you shut up then? Please?
"Look at the You Tube video of Trump talking about Bush. We are becoming hated and feared as a nation."
It's been like that for awhile. Nerds always hate jocks; it's part of the dynamic.
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Border Guards...
I am not exactly sure how this pertains to US Citizens, but being a Canadian myself I have the pleasure of dealing with some of these dick heads.
As for the comment about not allowing in an intelligent type person such as the victim in this case, I think the answer is obvious. Free thinkers are the enemy of the state.
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Shithead.
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Re: too easy to get into the united states
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Bussing out Dummies
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wat is this
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