How the Government is Working to Consolidate Data About You

How the Government is Working to Consolidate Data About You

The federal government knows your mother’s maiden name and your bank account number. The student debt you hold. Your disability status. The company that employs you and the wages you earn there. And that’s just a start.

How the government is working to consolidate data about you

The federal government knows your mother’s maiden name and your bank account number. The student debt you hold. Your disability status. The company that employs you and the wages you earn there. And that’s just a start. These intimate details about the personal lives of people who live in the United States are held in […]

Trump Wants to Merge Government Data. Here Are 314 Things It Might Know About You

By Emily Badger and Sheera Frenkel The federal government knows your mother’s maiden name and your bank account number. The student debt you hold. Your disability status. The company that employs you and the wages you earn there. And that’s just a start. It may also know your … Active-duty military status Addiction treatment records Adjusted gross income Adopted child’s name Adverse credit history Alimony paid Business debts cance … and about…

How Musk and Trump Are Working to Consolidate Government Data About You - Software Unplugged

Privacy advocates say that all this data could enable the government to punish its political opponents by weaponizing information about an individual’s personal life (bankruptcies, criminal histories, medical claims) or halting the benefits they receive (housing vouchers, retirement checks, food assistance). “They have not demonstrated a single case in which fraud detection has required some universal governmental access to everybody’s data,” sa…