[johnnyanmac]

scam emails are pennies on a dollar, though. it's so easy to just go through any email list ever and blast out thousands at once. It's not really a business that cares about targeted approaches.

>depending on how policy on immigration and naturalization shifts

Birthright citizenship invalidates such profling, but even then: I don't think the government needs DNA to figure out identities of people in the database.

[CharlieDigital]

    > It's not really a business that cares about targeted approaches.

It's called open rate and open rates are heavily driven by titles. Spam filters also use reputation to rank senders and open rates are one indicator of sender "quality". They definitely use targeted approaches if they can get their hands on datasets.

    > Birthright citizenship invalidates such profling

Only if you think that matters and the SCOTUS will uphold it. And of course, US isn't the only government; there are lots of other governments around the world.

[johnnyanmac]

>They definitely use targeted approaches if they can get their hands on datasets.

Even on a firesale, I doubt it would be cheap enough for the margins they work on. These aren't exactly large scale, sophsticated operations being worked with here.

>Only if you think that matters and the SCOTUS will uphold it.

Maybe I'm overly optimistic, but I think they will. If only because it's an absolute nightmare logistically trying to do it any other way. No country is going to accept a deportation flight of peopel who were not born on their land.

Or perhaps we have an underpopulation crisis decades later which does incentivize that. But that would solve the deportation issue in and of itself, right?