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Trump Wants to Put You in a Massive, Secret Government Database (theintercept.com)
submitted 1 day ago by FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Regular Americans don't understand.

And people always talk about privacy issues being about law and legality. But the darker issue is the info being used for manipulation.

Dystopia has been here, but everyone is ignorant. That's sounds mean but it's true. Like if you detox from all the privilege and the entertain people use to escape reality, you start to see how far we have gone into the dark dystopic side of humanity.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 day ago

It’s already to the point it’s too late.

Until they overreach, and the backlash cometh. The pendulum of history keeps swinging. Here's hoping it's a doozy.