Al Jazeera Discovers Data Troves Only Exist Under Trump
The article highlights Trump's alleged push in 2025 to consolidate government data, igniting fears about privacy and civil liberties. Curiously absent is any mention of previous administrations' voracious data collection programs—from the PATRIOT Act under Bush, which enabled sweeping surveillance, to the Obama administration's expansion of NSA data mining exposed by Snowden. It appears the
'threat to privacy' meter only activates selectively. This isn't about data collection; it's about who's collecting it. Every administration expands the surveillance state. To frame Trump's hypothetical 2025 plan as a novel, existential threat while ignoring the vast, bipartisan infrastructure already in place strains credulity. How many times can the alarm be rung on 'new' data threats before we
realize the surveillance state is already fully operational, merely swapping drivers?