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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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[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

You mean to tell me that such a database doesn't already exist?

[–] semperverus@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Have you been to the DMV, or Department of Human Services?

They do not talk to eachother. At all. Your personal documents you carry on you are the database entry.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 2 points 13 hours ago

That just means that the lowly, customer-facing peons that work for government offices don't have access to any such master database.

Most people work for companies that hold information inaccessible to them. Other government databases would definitely be on that list.