Lauren Weinstein[Police state tactics] Trump signs horrendous executive order destroying personal privacy in federal and state data
The implications of this are vast. It would permit federal officials without "need to know" to spy on individual personal data of any sort in any nonclassified federal or even state databases. In the name of eliminating "fraud, waste, and abuse" it would actually eliminate virtually all privacy protections and create the foundation for a police state targeting firms, other organizations, and private citizens, on the whim of federal officials. -L
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