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.
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. 😑
By making it legal, Trump can enforce using it to all state agencies and not just ICE who do not care about the law. I do not know how much it matters for the FBI.
I wish it was just trump. Remember Snowden in 2013? I can only imagine the level of surveillance they have nowadays.
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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
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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.
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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.
You mean to tell me that such a database doesn’t already exist?
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.
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.
that database is PALINTIR linked most likely, and likely targeting leftists, progressive democratic dissidents mostly.
By dissident, do you mean anyone who commits a thought crime?
Yes.
Ok, is it my turn now to say waht I want to do to him?
TCB?
Palantir also has this database. I am in it. You are it. Have been for months.
My fucking thought. Many states in Germany are fucking stupid and are contracting Palantir for police work. And for some illegal reasons they have access to the digital medical records of all citizen who did not opt-out.
Jokes on him,I’m already in at least a dozen.
Compared to google they’re fucking amateurs.
I think the only new piece here is Trump wants to link in voter data.
Anyone know if these would be subject to FOIA?
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