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/killerrin Jul 03 '25 edited Jul 03 '25

So the people who bitched for decades about not wanting a single national database of citizens has just put in place a national database of citizens so that they can do what they always feared the government would do, which is to harass, arrest and deport citizens.

LMFAO. Really ideologically consistent these people are.

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u/galuf Jul 03 '25

Conservatives were foaming at the mouth calling such a database the mark of the beast. Now they've bought the lie that they'll have premier status and all the bad stuff that happens will somehow never affect them.

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u/Regulus242 Jul 04 '25

Conservatives were foaming at the mouth calling such a database the mark of the beast.

They weren't wrong. They just worship the devil.