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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Josh Marcus

Has Big Brother arrived? Inside the secretive Trump effort to centralize government data on millions of Americans

The Trump administration is reportedly leaning on an Elon Musk-allied tech company to build wide-ranging data tools pooling government information on millions of Americans and immigrants alike.

The campaign has raised alarms from critics that the company could be furthering Musk’s DOGE effort to vacuum up and potentially weaponize – or sell – mass amounts of sensitive personal data, particularly against vulnerable groups like immigrants and political dissidents.

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