cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/57002935
The Trump administration is on its way to creating every authoritarianās 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 isnāt just something that the Trump administration would exploit; once built, itās 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, āStopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos,ā as a way to target fraud within a supposedly bloated government.
The order was no such thing.
Regular Americans donāt 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. Thatās sounds mean but itās 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. Itās already to the point itās too late.
Until they overreach, and the backlash cometh. The pendulum of history keeps swinging. Hereās hoping itās a doozy.