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.
Jokes on him,I’m already in at least a dozen.
Spoiler alert. You are already in the database. He just wants to make it legal.
Not sure how much legality matters anymore, “normalize” or “desensitize” might be better words here. Ugh. I hate that’s an actual sentence I just typed. And to think there are certainly alternate timelines unimaginably worse than this. My heart breaks for alternate me. 😑
I wish it was just trump. Remember Snowden in 2013? I can only imagine the level of surveillance they have nowadays.
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.
Marketers / advertisers are corrupt psychologists (the competent ones anyway), or to use oldspeak propogandists. Some timeless words for consideration.
“If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.” – Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda, 1933 to 1945
“Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.” – Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda, 1933 to 1945
I’m on the list.
It’s called being a registered Democrat.
As if we haven’t been under constant surveillance and our privacy data mined for corporations for decades.
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 entertainment people use to escape reality, then you start to see how far we have gone into the dark dystopic side of humanity. It’s already to the point it’s too late.
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.
Ok, is it my turn now to say waht I want to do to him?
TCB?
Compared to google they’re fucking amateurs.
Anyone know if these would be subject to FOIA?
I think the only new piece here is Trump wants to link in voter data.
