Agencies are reportedly pooling immigration data, Social Security numbers, and more into a central database. FPF is suing to learn how deep it goes.

The Trump administration is on its way to creating every authoritarian’s dream: a centralized database containing intimate details about every resident of this country, fully searchable by artificial intelligence. This powerful tool would empower the government to conduct previously unimagined levels of surveillance and harassment against its own people.

Freedom of the Press Foundation is suing the administration for documents behind the database. We know that this isn’t just something that the Trump administration would exploit; once built, it’s unlikely any administration could resist the urge to weaponize our personal information.

This nightmare privacy scenario began one year ago, when President Donald Trump issued an executive order that expanded data sharing across the federal government. The administration touted the order, “Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos,” as a way to target fraud within a supposedly bloated government.

The order was no such thing.

  • LemmyBruceLeeMarvin@lemmy.ml
    321·
    7 months ago

    Folks: you gotta stop saying Trump Trump Trump. He doesn’t personally give a shit about any database. The capitalist oligarchy that put him in office does. He’s not a great man but the money behind him is massive. Don’t be fooled.

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
      22·
      7 months ago

      Lol… “the capitalist oligarchy”?

      Is the GOP. Trump is the shitty, dilapidated face of the GOP, so people say Trump sometimes.

      Oversimplification of the problems we face is a mistake. You can’t blame the economic system for corruption when corruption can take place so easily in virtually any system.