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In March, President Trump issued an executive order aiming to eliminate the data silos that keep everything separate. Historically, much of the data collected by the government had been heavily compartmentalized and secured; even for those legally authorized to see sensitive data, requesting access for use by another government agency is typically a painful process that requires justifying what you need, why you need it, and proving that it is used for those purposes only. Not so under Trump.

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[-] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago

I am horrified and also not surprised. Democracy is dead and we are all going to be on lists and databases soon.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Good. If evil people are making lists of enemies I'd be ashamed not to be on them. Fuck Trump and fuck all Republicans.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

No way they could do that without breaking some laws.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

They've broken every law they've touched and now they're threatening the Supreme Court

Law is dead

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

To paraphrase George from Seinfeld: it’s not a law, if you don’t believe it

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

it would be awkward if it was from jerry seinfeld himself.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Too bad there’s no one in a position of power to do anything about it

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

And that data is going to be sold and traded to every corporation and government on the planet ...

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

only way to verify the data is properly disposed of is to burn down every single data center in the entire world.

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this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2025
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