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Trump white house has confirmed that DOGE is combining data that it has collected across agencies (archive.ph)

submitted 4 months ago by btaf45@lemmy.world to c/usa@midwest.social

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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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[–] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 38 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 11 points 4 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.

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago (3 children)

No way they could do that without breaking some laws.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago

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

Law is dead

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

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

[–] InfiniteHench@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

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

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 8 points 4 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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