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Nonilex

The latest #data demands are "absolutely alarming," & "reckless" & likely violate the #Privacy Act & other statutes, said Jon Davisson, senior counsel & director of litigation at the nonprofit Electronic Privacy Information Center. He & other advocates warn the data could be used to enable #deportation & mass #surveillance efforts & would do little to address improper payments.

"It is an unprecedented extension of the administration's campaign to consolidate #PersonalData," Davisson said.

#law
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Nonilex

In 2024, #SNAP served an average of 42M people each month, acc/to the #USDA, at a cost of $100B. Only some categories of lawfully present noncitizens are eligible to receive SNAP benefits, & those without legal status can never qualify. However, a noncitizen parent without legal status may apply for the assistance on behalf of their #children who are #UScitizens.

#law#Trump#Musk
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Nonilex

The emails obtained by NPR also show the nationwide directive regarding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or #SNAP, follows a request by federal auditors for information that included #citizenship #data but not other data typically used to verify financial eligibility for the program.

#law#Trump#Musk
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Nonilex

Exclusive: #USDA, #DOGE demand #states hand over personal #data about #FoodStamp recipients

The Department of Agriculture is demanding states hand over #PersonalData of #FoodAssistance recipients — including #SocialSecurity numbers, #addresses &, in at least one state, #citizenship status, acc/to emails shared w/NPR by an ofcl who was not allowed to speak publicly.

#Trump #Musk #law #immigration #privacy #InfoSec #ConspiracyTheories #TrumpLies
npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-53899

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John Gordon 📷

The geniuses at #FedEx decided that in order to delete my personal information I need to upload scans of the front & back of my ID. So, to delete my personal information I need to send them my personal information, and agree they can use it. No way.

They're also using a third party to collect it, so I would also be giving them the info. The US needs some proper data protection laws.

#infosec#pii#personaldata
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Ecologia Digital

"Over the past #100Days, #DOGE teams have grabbed #personaldata about US residents from dozens of federal databases and are reportedly merging it all into a #masterdatabase at the #DHS… a #whistleblower had come forward to reveal that the master database will combine data from such federal agencies as the #SocialSecurity, the #IRS and the #DHHS. He also alleged that DOGE workers are filling backpacks with multiple laptops, each one loaded with purloined agency data."

nytimes.com/2025/04/30/opinion

The New York Times · Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy: DOGE’s Construction of a Surveillance StateBy Julia Angwin
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Rpsu (326 ppm)

Why is the world in a state where I feel like laughing *every time* I see a popup dialogue on a webpage or in an app with a title “We value your privacy”.

No you don’t.

Law requires you to put the info there in the first place, and secondly you use dark patterns starting with your title copy.

#privacy#personalData#digitalisation
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Anonymous 🐈️🐾☕🍵🏴🇵🇸 :af:

"My advice to anybody traveling that’s worried about government getting into their data is to take a different device without all of your data," says Amir Makled, an attorney whose phone was seized when he re-entered the U.S. #personaldata #privacyprotect democracynow.org/2025/4/11/law

Democracy Now! · Michigan Lawyer Detained at Detroit Airport, Phone Seized; He Represents Pro-Palestine ProtesterBy Democracy Now!
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TEDIC

The Challenges of Digitization and Democracy in Peripheral Countries

This article was originally posted in the It for change blog.

With Romania’s recent annulment of national elections on the basis of mass disinformation, concerns over digital media and democracy have only deepened. Yet, the problems here - and so, also our p

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