Elon Musk's DOGE is racing to build a single centralized database with vast troves of personal information about millions of U.S. citizens and residents; an initiative that often violates or disregards fundamental privacy and security protections meant to keep such information safe. For any of my Libertarian pals out there I ask - How do you feel about that?
Ostensibly, this sprawling database is necessary to finding and deporting undocumented immigrants and rooting out fraud in government payments. The practical impacts however is that the Washington Post has reported that the DOGE Team has amassed a trove of sensitive information including taxpayer ID (Social Security numbers) dates of birth, employment history, disability records, medical documentation, banking and brokerage account records and much much more.
How do you feel about that?
In 1984, the Thought Police waited for the wrong word, the wrong glance, then struck.
Now the system won’t need to monitor your thoughts, artificial intelligence will anticipate them.
You’ll post,
apply, search, pause, and the system will watch, surveil, calculate, reshape. It
won’t knock. It’ll nudge. No alarms. No doors kicked in. Just a quiet
rerouting. A buried flag. A job never offered. A truth never shown. It
won’t censor. It’ll omit.
Prediction will replace suspicion. Friction will replace force.
It won’t need to punish the dangerous idea. It will only need to hide
it. The fewer questions it asks, the more power it will hold. What once
required obedience will require only data. The rest will be math.
You won’t be stopped. Just slowly moved. Not punished. Just erased from relevance. This won’t be governance. It’ll be geometry, narrowing your path click by click, decision by decision, until you can’t remember what the wide road looked like.
I might just have the genesis for a gripping sci fi novel, eh?
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