On March 20, President Trump signed an Executive Order “Eliminating Information Silos.” This means he instructed United States agency heads to effectively weave hundreds of agency databases, which include information from everything from tax filings to hospital claims, into a single, searchable vault of personal data.

The U.S. administration’s agenda could merge an internal inventory tallied by sources at more than three hundred distinct data fields, ranging from disability status to gambling winnings to passport number.

Technically, this could create more effective fraud detection with the potential to facilitate productivity; politically, this is dynamite. Although such an initiative could achieve major efficiencies, it also creates a telescope that can peer into every corner of American private lives.

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