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

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/57002935

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.

  • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    44·
    21 hours ago

    I wish it was just trump. Remember Snowden in 2013? I can only imagine the level of surveillance they have nowadays.

    • IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.comEnglish
      10·
      19 hours ago

      Marketing too… You look at the history of psychology and marketing and how it was bad with cable tv and magazines and politics as well in that era. But now we have our entire lives tracked and psychological manipulation working on us basically constantly.

      The human story isn’t a genuine one anymore, the path of humanity is created artificially. Our own lives probably aren’t the natural lives we were meant to have. We are losing genuine humanity.

      …and this is what we are supposed to be willing to die to defend.