For ninety years Americans fought to keep the government from building one master file on each of us. This week Trump and Scott Bessent started one for every child in the country...
You can assume everything is being heard and often watched, at least by a computer which tags key words and alerts somebody. Some years ago I was listening to the Ed Schultz Show when someone called in and began to discuss the federal data fusion center where he worked. After about 5 minutes, right in the middle of a sentence, his phone went dead. Obviously he was cut off. And I found some interesting OnStar training films that were posted, showing how an operator could remotely track a vehicle and at police request turn off its engine. Orwell was an optimist.
Judy. They already have the capability, The National Security Data Center in Bluffdale, UT google it. Built under the authorization of the PATRIOT act is collects ALL electronic communications and uses AI to sniff them. That is how Sen Schmitt got a record of Jack Smith's text messages.
Palantir acts as the analytics layer rather than a data broker, the data it has access to depends entirely on what an individual government agency, military branch, or corporate client chooses to feed into its isolated instance of the software. Based on public contracts and system capabilities, client-integrated data
It has access to government and law enforcement records,public health and medical information, financial and administrative data and even more frightening Digital and Device Metadata: Location tracking, mobile device/phone logs, and social media footprints aggregated during investigations.
It is likely that the rest of us are already in that database. That was the DOGE Boys' primary role - hack and consolidate the data systems of every agency they entered when nobody was able to monitor what they were doing. Thom's theory that the child bank accounts are the last element to continuously update the database makes perfect sense.
The federal government has long had a central data system that looks just like the new AI facilities. Just Google "federal data centers" and click for images. Odds are that every current AI system has already hacked Musk's unauthorized database on all of us. Of course, the Tech Bros goals are not fascist. They are capitalist.
Recent OS updates boasted AI infusions into my Galaxy mobile phone and desktop PC. That has led to an interesting experience. I Googled the internet for a new closet door on my PC the other day, found a match on Amazon, and ordered it. Then the next day, I started getting ads for closet doors on my cellphone solitaire game app every time I reshuffled the deck. Then I started getting ads for Mercedes EVs after our latest service call on another phone app. Hmmm?
I don't have a cell phone, I run Windows 7 and an out of date Chrome, Yet when I order stuff on Amazon, it will invariable show up on other sites in the form of Ads. All sites of any size, these days are in partnership with other sites.
Here is how partnership works. 23andme was a DNA testing site, they said that they don't sell their results, and they don't, but they share them with partners, and with investors.
Alas I have no choice; I live on an island, we have a market, that has limited selection. A hardware store, that has limited selection, the only town is small,2.23 sq miles and 2,600 people, it is primarily tourist and services a marina, The clothing store is a 2nd hand store, and a thrift store.
Everything except Amazon and Air Fed Ex comes by ferry. If you order something on line, there is the risk of your credit card being compromised. I've gone through four credit cards already, with the same bank because of fraud. I canceled my Paypal account, primarily because I can't cancel a subscription to which I didn't subscribe. and I bought something and somehow the vendor was able to use my account.
With Amazon I have had no problem and with some items even next day delivery, I guess it comes in via air, (we have a tiny airport with no control tower)
We also use Walmart, which is another enemy of the people. to go to COSTCO.
I have to make a ferry reservation a week, month or day in advance, and if lucky I can get a reservation (both ways), then wait in line a hour for the ferry, a 1 and half ride on the ferry, then another hours ride to COSTCO. and the town with a decent shopping center.
So amazon it is, safe and fast. All large online retailers are of the same ilk.
Smaller ones, are a gamble, with the product and your credit. My wife has seen crap on Facebook (I don't have an account), bought it and wound up with suspicious
charges, report them and then wait a week or 10 days for a new credit card.
I also have Starlink, I didn't but got snookered into it by Dish.
I live Rural on this Island, no cable, and over the air is two Canadian stations with iffy reception. So it is satellite TV. I have Dish/Drect TV. they recently "upgraded" my service (I saw no change), but it meant that my local ISP could no longer interface with my TV, without slowing down, and it was already slow (my ISP was local,there is no other), I was forced to switch over to Starlink, there is an improvement in download speed.
So here I am with little or no choices. It would be great to have the choices that you have.
My choices aren’t that great either. Anything that I order from the US carries a huge freight charge to get to Costa Rica plus usually a 20% tariff. Luckily a dress code here in the mountains is not enforced so I wear what I have until they are no longer of service, then anything new I usually buy at Ropa Americana which is an outlet for discontinued and contraband clothes. I can also travel four hours to Pricemart (like Costco) but that’s only if I have something else to do in San Jose like a medical appointment. But on the whole I wouldn’t trade where I live for convenience in another place.
The freaky part is that a Galaxy phone has an Android OS, while my PC has a Windows OS. Two different gizmos and operating systems, almost instantly in communication after updates a few days apart.
I'm no geek, but what browsers so you use on both. For instance if you use Chrome, which is Alphabet formerly known as Google. and the same email addy on both. then there is the problem.
Try downloading and using a diferent browser, I don't know which browsers work on an Android, but all will work on Windows.
I use Opera, Firefox and Chrome. Chrome and Adobe have a deal, I couldn't print out an Adobe pdf in Chrome, I can on some sites, but not ones that have upgraded, so I copyied the url and posted it in Opera and it printed out just fine.
They all work together to pick your pocket and mine. Biggest scams are subscriptions.
Take substack, easty to subscribe, especially paid, butnot so easy to unsubscribe.
I had to go to settings, substack.com, search for a subscription, but to unsubscribe I had to scroll down to the bottom and on the left hand side, 2nd or 3rd choice in small print was unsubscribe, but no refunds.
Point is, AI is on both OS's. The PC AI had to feed my online search data to the AI on my phone, which then had to feed a game app owner's advertising contractor's choices tailored just for one gamer - me. That is AI-yai-yai.
Once again, Republican hypocrisy and classism are exposed. They care about privacy--their privacy, but not yours, just as they care about jobs--theirs, not yours, and healthcare at a price they can pay, but you can't. A free democracy works only on mutual trust and trustworthiness, but for the GOP, trust is only a one-way street.
The Repugnican Party is fulfilling its long-held dreams of fascism throughout all three branches of government. Legacy media fails its franchise daily. Democratic “leadership” is far more invested in its own perpetuation than in advancing a government of, by, and for the people. If Democrats are successful in November it will be in spite of said “leadership”, not because of it, but they’ll claim undeserved credit. Let us hope that enough Americans are paying attention that national reckoning and decontamination can ultimately right our foundering ship of state.
And the new ID.me is accomplishing the same for the rest of us, as it is now required to access Treasury, IRS, Medicare, SS, and any gov't agency. Has anyone else been through this ID process? It's utterly creepy!
Credit bureaus have been tracking anyone with a credit history and excluding those without a history from all kinds of things, while discriminating in various ways or reporting their info to anyone with access (or enough money or clout) for decades. The cumulative file held by every school on every student has been used to discriminate against any student or former student in all sorts of areas, including employment and military eligibility or assignment of security clearances. We have been working our way towards a police state for generations. The foot in the door is the invitation to invade privacy, and one can only hope that warnings of this nature will be adequate to alert more people to the inherent dangers.
And with their fake government websites, they'll be collecting your location and IP address and everything that you work off of there to add to that file. The guys from doge , who hoovered up the social security and irs records are still working, now for the government's internet offices to build fake fronts to legitimate government sites. They harvest everything an unprotected web browser will give them, and then send you along to the real site. See the Drey report.
Even if we manage to “get back” our gov in November, and even if we manage to get a demo president back in office in ‘28, time will race by and somehow, inevitably, the public will forget this nightmare even happened and a new even worse repugnance will enter office! Are our minds all part of ai algorithms, also?
There are countries where mandatory national identity cards exist and privacy is protected, e.g. Estonia, Germany, India, and Singapore. The “role model” is Estonia where any use of the card is reported to the citizen and the citizen can log into the X-Road server and see audit logs including government access. The cards in Estonia can also be used to vote online. The country is introducing new biometric features. Your identity is distributed across servers so that the hacking of one does not compromise the identity. Hacking one server only yields one of the three needed keys to decrypt an identity. Estonia’s neighbor to the East is a constant threat so security is taken seriously. In many ways Estonia is ahead of the curve with the coming collapse of public key encryption due to AI.
The current situation in the U.S. is that we have national identities but it’s outsourced for profit to the private sector. For example, you now must use ID.me to log into your Social Security account. ID.me is a private company but funded by government contracts. I cannot see how this is somehow better than Estonia’s X-Road. The X-Road system has evolved and has the ability to evolve more now that public key encryption is soon to be dead due to AI.
This is Larry Ellison's goal and every tyrant's dream. I worried about these children's accounts (and the information and control they provide) the minute I read about them .
So now we know why they need to built all those AI data centers!
You can assume everything is being heard and often watched, at least by a computer which tags key words and alerts somebody. Some years ago I was listening to the Ed Schultz Show when someone called in and began to discuss the federal data fusion center where he worked. After about 5 minutes, right in the middle of a sentence, his phone went dead. Obviously he was cut off. And I found some interesting OnStar training films that were posted, showing how an operator could remotely track a vehicle and at police request turn off its engine. Orwell was an optimist.
Judy. They already have the capability, The National Security Data Center in Bluffdale, UT google it. Built under the authorization of the PATRIOT act is collects ALL electronic communications and uses AI to sniff them. That is how Sen Schmitt got a record of Jack Smith's text messages.
Palantir acts as the analytics layer rather than a data broker, the data it has access to depends entirely on what an individual government agency, military branch, or corporate client chooses to feed into its isolated instance of the software. Based on public contracts and system capabilities, client-integrated data
It has access to government and law enforcement records,public health and medical information, financial and administrative data and even more frightening Digital and Device Metadata: Location tracking, mobile device/phone logs, and social media footprints aggregated during investigations.
And they will be linked to the microchip that is implanted in everyone at birth.
Yeah. Just like the microchips we implant in our dogs. My Ring camera can help locate someone’s lost dog if it is chipped. 🤪
It is likely that the rest of us are already in that database. That was the DOGE Boys' primary role - hack and consolidate the data systems of every agency they entered when nobody was able to monitor what they were doing. Thom's theory that the child bank accounts are the last element to continuously update the database makes perfect sense.
The federal government has long had a central data system that looks just like the new AI facilities. Just Google "federal data centers" and click for images. Odds are that every current AI system has already hacked Musk's unauthorized database on all of us. Of course, the Tech Bros goals are not fascist. They are capitalist.
Recent OS updates boasted AI infusions into my Galaxy mobile phone and desktop PC. That has led to an interesting experience. I Googled the internet for a new closet door on my PC the other day, found a match on Amazon, and ordered it. Then the next day, I started getting ads for closet doors on my cellphone solitaire game app every time I reshuffled the deck. Then I started getting ads for Mercedes EVs after our latest service call on another phone app. Hmmm?
Funny how that works isn't it? Just not ha ha funny.
I don't have a cell phone, I run Windows 7 and an out of date Chrome, Yet when I order stuff on Amazon, it will invariable show up on other sites in the form of Ads. All sites of any size, these days are in partnership with other sites.
Here is how partnership works. 23andme was a DNA testing site, they said that they don't sell their results, and they don't, but they share them with partners, and with investors.
Don't use Amazon for multiple reasons. Ad sharing, abuse of vendors, supporting kraznov and putting $ into Beelzebub's pocket.
Alas I have no choice; I live on an island, we have a market, that has limited selection. A hardware store, that has limited selection, the only town is small,2.23 sq miles and 2,600 people, it is primarily tourist and services a marina, The clothing store is a 2nd hand store, and a thrift store.
Everything except Amazon and Air Fed Ex comes by ferry. If you order something on line, there is the risk of your credit card being compromised. I've gone through four credit cards already, with the same bank because of fraud. I canceled my Paypal account, primarily because I can't cancel a subscription to which I didn't subscribe. and I bought something and somehow the vendor was able to use my account.
With Amazon I have had no problem and with some items even next day delivery, I guess it comes in via air, (we have a tiny airport with no control tower)
We also use Walmart, which is another enemy of the people. to go to COSTCO.
I have to make a ferry reservation a week, month or day in advance, and if lucky I can get a reservation (both ways), then wait in line a hour for the ferry, a 1 and half ride on the ferry, then another hours ride to COSTCO. and the town with a decent shopping center.
So amazon it is, safe and fast. All large online retailers are of the same ilk.
Smaller ones, are a gamble, with the product and your credit. My wife has seen crap on Facebook (I don't have an account), bought it and wound up with suspicious
charges, report them and then wait a week or 10 days for a new credit card.
I also have Starlink, I didn't but got snookered into it by Dish.
I live Rural on this Island, no cable, and over the air is two Canadian stations with iffy reception. So it is satellite TV. I have Dish/Drect TV. they recently "upgraded" my service (I saw no change), but it meant that my local ISP could no longer interface with my TV, without slowing down, and it was already slow (my ISP was local,there is no other), I was forced to switch over to Starlink, there is an improvement in download speed.
So here I am with little or no choices. It would be great to have the choices that you have.
My choices aren’t that great either. Anything that I order from the US carries a huge freight charge to get to Costa Rica plus usually a 20% tariff. Luckily a dress code here in the mountains is not enforced so I wear what I have until they are no longer of service, then anything new I usually buy at Ropa Americana which is an outlet for discontinued and contraband clothes. I can also travel four hours to Pricemart (like Costco) but that’s only if I have something else to do in San Jose like a medical appointment. But on the whole I wouldn’t trade where I live for convenience in another place.
The freaky part is that a Galaxy phone has an Android OS, while my PC has a Windows OS. Two different gizmos and operating systems, almost instantly in communication after updates a few days apart.
I'm no geek, but what browsers so you use on both. For instance if you use Chrome, which is Alphabet formerly known as Google. and the same email addy on both. then there is the problem.
Try downloading and using a diferent browser, I don't know which browsers work on an Android, but all will work on Windows.
I use Opera, Firefox and Chrome. Chrome and Adobe have a deal, I couldn't print out an Adobe pdf in Chrome, I can on some sites, but not ones that have upgraded, so I copyied the url and posted it in Opera and it printed out just fine.
They all work together to pick your pocket and mine. Biggest scams are subscriptions.
Take substack, easty to subscribe, especially paid, butnot so easy to unsubscribe.
I had to go to settings, substack.com, search for a subscription, but to unsubscribe I had to scroll down to the bottom and on the left hand side, 2nd or 3rd choice in small print was unsubscribe, but no refunds.
Point is, AI is on both OS's. The PC AI had to feed my online search data to the AI on my phone, which then had to feed a game app owner's advertising contractor's choices tailored just for one gamer - me. That is AI-yai-yai.
Once again, Republican hypocrisy and classism are exposed. They care about privacy--their privacy, but not yours, just as they care about jobs--theirs, not yours, and healthcare at a price they can pay, but you can't. A free democracy works only on mutual trust and trustworthiness, but for the GOP, trust is only a one-way street.
The Repugnican Party is fulfilling its long-held dreams of fascism throughout all three branches of government. Legacy media fails its franchise daily. Democratic “leadership” is far more invested in its own perpetuation than in advancing a government of, by, and for the people. If Democrats are successful in November it will be in spite of said “leadership”, not because of it, but they’ll claim undeserved credit. Let us hope that enough Americans are paying attention that national reckoning and decontamination can ultimately right our foundering ship of state.
And the new ID.me is accomplishing the same for the rest of us, as it is now required to access Treasury, IRS, Medicare, SS, and any gov't agency. Has anyone else been through this ID process? It's utterly creepy!
This is a much bigger problem than is thought.
Social Security No. is a key*.
Just wait until AI gets a load of those SSNs... You think the FBI's freak out over the loss of personal data is bad?
You ain't seen nothin' yet.
AI is a beast.
*API / SSH / digital key — A machine‑readable credential proving a user, service, or workload is allowed to access something.
*Database key — A unique identifier (primary key, foreign key) that defines relationships and ensures records are uniquely addressable.
#VOTE out his Insane Clown Posse
#MAKE an honest woman out of Harp
#DEPORT Billionaire South Africans/Ex-Escort Slovenians who cheated visa-wise to US Immigration
#DEMAND Murdoch give him a TV show if he quits NOW
The area for public comments is CLOSED!
And we thought credit scores were intrusive! So, rump wants obedient people like China and North Korea.
I think it is open
I think it is open. Who are you?
Credit bureaus have been tracking anyone with a credit history and excluding those without a history from all kinds of things, while discriminating in various ways or reporting their info to anyone with access (or enough money or clout) for decades. The cumulative file held by every school on every student has been used to discriminate against any student or former student in all sorts of areas, including employment and military eligibility or assignment of security clearances. We have been working our way towards a police state for generations. The foot in the door is the invitation to invade privacy, and one can only hope that warnings of this nature will be adequate to alert more people to the inherent dangers.
What they told us in elementary school is true??
Your school record (that included a "sanitary check" in early grades; mine reported that I bit my nails) will follow you throughout your life.
Unreal -- although I have run out of adjectives to describe today's world.
And with their fake government websites, they'll be collecting your location and IP address and everything that you work off of there to add to that file. The guys from doge , who hoovered up the social security and irs records are still working, now for the government's internet offices to build fake fronts to legitimate government sites. They harvest everything an unprotected web browser will give them, and then send you along to the real site. See the Drey report.
Even if we manage to “get back” our gov in November, and even if we manage to get a demo president back in office in ‘28, time will race by and somehow, inevitably, the public will forget this nightmare even happened and a new even worse repugnance will enter office! Are our minds all part of ai algorithms, also?
Why would a sex-predator-protector President want this information?
There are countries where mandatory national identity cards exist and privacy is protected, e.g. Estonia, Germany, India, and Singapore. The “role model” is Estonia where any use of the card is reported to the citizen and the citizen can log into the X-Road server and see audit logs including government access. The cards in Estonia can also be used to vote online. The country is introducing new biometric features. Your identity is distributed across servers so that the hacking of one does not compromise the identity. Hacking one server only yields one of the three needed keys to decrypt an identity. Estonia’s neighbor to the East is a constant threat so security is taken seriously. In many ways Estonia is ahead of the curve with the coming collapse of public key encryption due to AI.
The current situation in the U.S. is that we have national identities but it’s outsourced for profit to the private sector. For example, you now must use ID.me to log into your Social Security account. ID.me is a private company but funded by government contracts. I cannot see how this is somehow better than Estonia’s X-Road. The X-Road system has evolved and has the ability to evolve more now that public key encryption is soon to be dead due to AI.
This is Larry Ellison's goal and every tyrant's dream. I worried about these children's accounts (and the information and control they provide) the minute I read about them .
Good piece, Thom. you may want to look at my take: https://carldavidson.substack.com/p/reverse-the-maga-verdict-on-the-green