US EditionThe Trump administration is building a national citizenship data system
- The Trump administration has built and rolled out a national citizenship data system aimed at verifying voter citizenship status nationwide.
- This system broadened the SAVE program's scope by incorporating information from federal Social Security records and immigration databases without providing public notification or transparency.
- Experts and officials express cautious optimism about its potential to improve voter list accuracy but raise serious concerns about data reliability and lack of clear usage safeguards.
- USCIS spokesman Matthew Tragesser called the system a "game changer" for fraud elimination, while some election officials note the tool was not designed for this purpose initially.
- The tool's use has sparked legal challenges and debate over privacy, with calls for public oversight and worries that errors could wrongly label eligible voters as noncitizens.
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More Information Sharing Means Fewer Taxpayer Losses to Fraud
Last month, Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) introduced a resolution of inquiry objecting to the Trump administration’s development of a “centralized database” that “compiles American citizens’ personal information across federal agencies and departments.” The resolution states that personal information includes “confidential taxpayer, identity, wage, child support, bank account, student loan, health, medical, financial, or other information.” Left uns…
Fact Check: Is Trump Administration Providing Citizenship Data to Election Officials a ‘Hair on Fire’ Development?
The Department of Homeland Security is advancing its system to share citizenship verification data with state and local election officials, which has prompted “hair-on-fire” concerns from one legacy media outlet and a legal scholar. Additionally, one former Biden White House official has alleged the Trump administration is creating a database to include citizens “without telling us.” The citizenship data has been integrated with Social Security…
Trump’s New Citizenship System Triggers Alarms Over Privacy Rights - teleSUR English
The Trump administration has established the U.S.’s first national database designed to verify voter citizenship, raising alarms among privacy experts, according to a report aired Sunday by National Public Radio (NPR). RELATED: Trump Says He Already Found a Buyer for TikTok The new tool—developed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Office of Government Efficiency (DOGE)—allows state and county election officials to cross-check v…
Trump Is Building National Citizenship System
“The Trump administration has built a searchable national citizenship data system,” NPR reports. “The tool is designed to be used by state and local election officials to ensure only citizens are voting. But it was developed rapidly without a public process, and some of those officials are already worrying about what else it could be used for.”
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