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?
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