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American Panopticon | The Trump administration is pooling data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next
The Trump administration is pooling data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next.
DOGE is reportedly attempting to build a “ master database ” of immigrant data to aid in deportations; NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya has floated the possibility of an autism registry(though the administration quickly walked it back). They can and do use the data to target advertising, segment customers, perform customer-behavior analysis, carry out predictive analytics or forecasting, optimize resources or supply chains, assess security or fraud risk, make real-time business decisions and, these days, train AI models. By then, the 20th-century assumption that U.S. intelligence agencies were running mind-control experiments, infiltrating and disrupting civil-rights groups, or carrying out surreptitious missions at home like they do abroad had been fully internalized, and fused with the suspicion that Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Walmart were—in their own ways—following suit.
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