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The scale at which DOGE is seeking to interconnect data, including sensitive biometric data, has never been done before, raising alarms with experts who fear it may lead to disastrous privacy violations for citizens, certified foreign workers, and undocumented immigrants.

wired.comDOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track ImmigrantsDOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.
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“They are trying to amass a huge amount of data,” a senior DHS official tells WIRED. “It has nothing to do with finding fraud or wasteful spending … They are already cross-referencing immigration with SSA and IRS as well as voter data.”

wired.comDOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track ImmigrantsDOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.

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Mistakes in the context of immigration can have devastating consequences: In March, authorities arrested and deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia, due to, the Trump administration says, “an administrative error.” Still, they have refused to bring Abrego Garcia back, defying a Supreme Court ruling.

wired.comDOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track ImmigrantsDOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.
Alberto
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Our lives separately have no use, but together bring A LOT of information. And information is power. Specially now. Please, let's not ignore our digital print. We don't know how is it going to be used (now, in 1 year, or in 10 years, and things can get really scary). WE NEED OUR PRIVACY BACK.

coconutlizard.bsky.social
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Monsters!”To carry out all of those spoken and unspoken threats,the incoming Trump administration and Republicans in Congress will tap into—and may very well expand—the American government’s vast surveillance machinery, and they appear poised to use it more than any admin in recent US history”