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.
Another one? How many databases do they need us in?
And the President is a pig-faced child-raping traitor.
Put that in the database, too.
I think it’s just for tweens.
i remember in 2016 when the republican database of citizens leaked. it had like 25 variables per person. i downloaded it (i think i might still have it) and it was about as right as the algorithm that thinks i’m a radiological oncologist.
all it had correct about me was my address.
10 years later their tools are unfathomably better.
the algorithm still thinks i’m a radiological oncologist.
I think you misread it, it actually now thinks that you’re a radical oncologist
Have you considered the possibility?
i have, but i cannot get enough cocaine to survive med school. or rather, that much cocaine would kill me
They already have. Thats what DOGE was for. The massive data centers are critical infrastructure for the AI surveillance state.
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.
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.
Seriously. This is not new. The whole Prism thing before Palantir had all the data but not the ontology. I’m glad Europe learnt from Snowden.
It’s painful to read Palantir still being used in EU as well…
I’m afraid Germany hasn’t learned anything from him: In the state where I live, the state government unfortunately decided late last year to implement Palantir, even going so far as to amend the police law specifically to retroactively lend at least the appearance of legality to a contract for the purchase of the U.S. mass surveillance software “Gotham” that had already been concluded unlawfully.
There was significant public resistance, but it was simply ignored.
It may still be possible to prevent this through a lawsuit filed with the Constitutional Court, as the use of such applications for groundless mass surveillance is unconstitutional in Germany due to the right to informational self-determination - and I also find it hard to believe that such a thing is compatible with EU law.
I think our politicians must have been bribed. I can’t explain it any other way, because even just from security standpoint, it goes without saying that it’s insane to pass even the most sensitive data directly to the fascist regime in the US - thanks to Snowden, we all know that there’s almost certainly a backdoor.
It’s already happening. They just want to legalize it for other use.
There is no single database for all of this information (but thanks to Palantir there will be for all of this and more), so that is definitely new.
The tip of the authoritarian easy button iceberg:
•The Central Intelligence Agency has been granted increased access to domestic law enforcement databases, further blurring the line between foreign intelligence and domestic policing.
•The so-called Department of Government Efficiency got direct access to Treasury Department payment systems, including Social Security numbers, names, and birthdays, according to a whistleblower.
•Immigration and Customs Enforcement got access to Medicaid recipients’ data and banking information.
•The Transportation Security Administration is now sharing biometric passenger info with immigration enforcement, turning every airport check-in into a potential trap.
It depends on how you want to define “database” as to whether or not this already existed. Traditional database like a SQL database… Probably. But… Look into the Utah Data Center.
Gotta thank Oracle too. Ellison/Oracle has been pushing multiple countries to do this consolidation, not just the US
Another one?
If a private company does it, they can “sell” the data to the government and all the government needs to see it is pay.
If the government has the data, then there is laws and regulations about how they use it.
Like most things trump does, the problem already existed, most people were just ignorant until someone as stupid as trump tried to trick them.
That’s why we keep seeing people acting shocked that trump is doing what’s been done for decades. The problem is they tend to act like trump and refuse to accept that they realized late. But at least they’re finally starting to notice
Lmao fun fact everyone, you are already in many massive secret government databases and have been for years, long predating Trump
Dumbass. Elon and doge beat him to it. People should be furious.
Tinfoil hat, perpetually mad at the government types still silent for some reason.
Yeah seriously, where’s all those friggin “Molon Labe” kids now? “2nd protects the 1st”? “Tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty”? “No step on snek”? “Don’t agree with you but will fight to the death for your right to say it”? “What did you just say to me you little bitch I’m a navy seal with over 99 confirmed kills”? (Lol)
Well here it is. The gubbmint wants to monitor your thoughts with the help of hidden microphones everywhere, hacking your phone, and probably space lasers. They want to biometric scan you and your kids just to allow access to electronic devices. They’re building databases and literally rounding people up they don’t like and putting them in concentration camps, even right here on home soil, no less! They’re murdering U.S citzens right here in our cities.
I thought we’d at least be allies with these types, with some general disagreements on the finer points, but these big tough sheepdoggy guys that seemingly adored the Constitution and AR-15s that were seemingly EVERYWHERE, are suddenly all disappeared, or getting fantastic glutes from all that goose stepping.
Bunch’a pathetic mall ninjas. It’s up to us to be training and looking after each other if we want any chance of brighter days ahead.
For real, we had to listen to these idiots for decades and now they seem completely silent when everything they’ve raged against for so long has finally manifested.
If I’ve been doing anything right I’m already in several.
Excuse me while I begin preparing to hold my breath on the belief that the next Democratic administration will not only not abuse this system, but will actually abolish it.
i will raise your bet to one donut and coffee, i say less-flagrantly abuse but pretend they have stopped, only to have expanded the entire time. also a reminder to breathe you need that to live
And people wonder why I have such a hair up my ass about all the data and information large tech collects on us. Organize and arm up.
