{"id":18377,"date":"2025-04-09T18:42:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T18:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/how-musk-and-trump-are-working-to-consolidate-government-data-about-you\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T18:42:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T18:42:27","slug":"how-musk-and-trump-are-working-to-consolidate-government-data-about-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/how-musk-and-trump-are-working-to-consolidate-government-data-about-you\/","title":{"rendered":"How Musk and Trump Are Working to Consolidate Government Data About You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Privacy advocates say that all this data could enable the government to punish its political opponents by weaponizing information about an individual\u2019s personal life (bankruptcies, criminal histories, medical claims) or halting the benefits they receive (housing vouchers, retirement checks, food assistance).<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey have not demonstrated a single case in which fraud detection has required some universal governmental access to everybody\u2019s data,\u201d said Representative Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland. \u201cIn fact, the creation of a monster uniform database of all information on all citizens will be an invitation to fraud and political retaliation against the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That is how personal data is tracked and used in authoritarian states, Mr. Raskin added. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/09\/22\/technology\/russia-putin-surveillance-spying.html\" title=\"\">Both Russia<\/a> <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/21\/world\/asia\/china-surveillance-investigation.html\" title=\"\">and China<\/a> stockpile data on their citizens to track opponents and squash dissent of the ruling party in government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The White House declined to directly address how it would safeguard and use the data it is seeking to consolidate, including whether the administration is trying to create one central database, citing only its focus on fraud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWaste, fraud and abuse have been deeply entrenched in our broken system for far too long,\u201d the White House spokesman Harrison Fields said in a statement. \u201cIt takes direct access to the system to identify and fix it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Technologists warn that trying to match complex data sets to make decisions about government programs \u2014 including by using artificial intelligence to identify waste in government spending, as Musk allies have <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/03\/technology\/musk-allies-ai-government.html\" title=\"\">discussed<\/a> \u2014 could produce rampant errors and real-world harm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And national security experts note that a large collection of data about American citizens would be an enticing target for enemy nation states, hackers and cybercriminals. Countries including China, Russia and Iran have been behind major breaches of U.S. government databases in recent years, U.S. officials have said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Private companies and data brokers that buy and sell data know plenty about Americans, too. But a crucial difference lies in what the federal government alone can do with that data, privacy advocates say. Google doesn\u2019t control the apparatus of immigration enforcement. Target doesn\u2019t have the power to halt Social Security payments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis gets to a fundamental point about privacy: It is not just the question of, \u2018Does anyone else in the world know this about me?\u2019\u201d said John Davisson, the director of litigation at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which has sued the administration to block DOGE\u2019s access to financial data at the Treasury and federal work force records at the Office of Personnel Management. \u201cIt is a question of <em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">who<\/em> knows this about me, and what can they lawfully \u2014 or as a practical matter \u2014 do with that information?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     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