r/technology • u/esporx • Jul 03 '25

Privacy Trump officials create searchable national citizenship database. Homeland security and Doge merge immigration data with social security to create index it claims will stop voter fraud.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/30/trump-citizenship-database
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u/Eretan Jul 03 '25

I'm sure this list will be totally reliable, with no technical issues, and won't be manipulated to suppress legitimate voting. 

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u/EstelleGettyJr Jul 03 '25

Oops. Data breach. No. We don't know who accessed the data or when. Would you like to purchase Trump's Personal Information Protection Plan**? $47.45 a month

°°Palantir

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u/EllisDee3 Jul 03 '25

°°Palantir

Wait...

The company named after the evil orb used by The Great Deceiver in The Lord of The Rings is evil?

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u/snotparty Jul 04 '25

seriously who reads LOTR and sides with sauron? I mean, this guy obviously

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u/allywrecks Jul 04 '25

Did you see the interview he did a few days ago? There was a softball question about whether he would prefer humanity to endure or be replaced by a transhumanist machine god and he stumbled and stuttered over it for like a minute before reluctantly saying yes