[governance] Caution on Twitter urged as tourists barred from US

[Cave, Jonathan]

I respectfully disagree. Security resources are scarce and detection is stochastic, so the duty of homeland security is to prioritise sources and signals according to relevance and significance. This jumping at shadows (or tough-guy posturing) is, in my view, a waste of resources that brings the security strategy into disrepute. It is therefore a dereliction of duty, to borrow your phrase. TIA is an urban myth, and a counterproductive one at that. IMHO, of course:-)




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Pranesh Prakash <pranesh at cis-india.org> wrote:

Kerry Brown [2012-01-31 22:23]:
> Why are the monitoring tweets in the first place?

Because most people would, and very rightly so, accuse them of laxity
and dereliction of duty if they didn't.

I have not seen a single cogent argument as to why they should not.  If
it is the duty of the immigration officers to prevent untoward
foreigners from entering the country, then they should use all public
information at their disposal, at the very least, to come to that
conclusion.

It is another matter whether Twitter banter should form the basis of
their opinions, but then you don't seem to be interested in that question.

-- 
Pranesh Prakash
Programme Manager
Centre for Internet and Society
W: http://cis-india.org | T: +91 80 40926283

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