>>Such integration has never existed before, and experts call it a sea change that inches the U.S. closer to having a roster of citizens — something the country has never embraced. A centralized national database of Americans' personal information has long been considered a third rail — especially to privacy advocates as well as political conservatives, who have traditionally opposed mass data consolidation by the federal government.
Legal experts told NPR they were alarmed that a development of this magnitude was already underway without a transparent and public process.<<
#KOSU #NPR #USPol #CitizenshipDatabase #Privacy #DataCollection #VoterRegistration #ElectionSecurity
https://www.kosu.org/politics/2025-06-29/the-trump-administration-is-building-a-national-citizenship-data-system
What LLMs Know About Their Users
Simon Willison talks about ChatGPT’s new memory dossier feature. In his explanation, he illustrates how much the LLM—and the company—knows about its users. I... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/06/what-llms-know-about-their-users.html
From property to governmental digital twin: the future cadastre in Switzerland https://www.byteseu.com/1136675/ #AEC #BIM #BuildingInformationModelling #cartography #construction #DataCollection #DigitalTwin #digitization #GIS #INFRASTRUCTURE #LandAdministration #LandRegistry #SpatialDataInfrastructure #surveying #Switzerland #UrbanPlanning
Airlines Secretly Selling Passenger Data to the Government
This is news:
A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, col... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/06/airlines-secretly-selling-passenger-data-to-the-government.html
Cities with strong OpenStreetMap communities don’t just have better transport data — they can have more equitable mobility.
via bsky @itsinternational.bsky.social
https://www.itsinternational.com/feature/big-data-losing-our-way
If you're an American, you need to order your #LexisNexis #report. It's free. It's not a credit report (although there are some aspects of that to it). It's a dossier on you and your life, brought to you by the largest data broker in the #UnitedStates. #PleaseBoost #privacy #security #DataPrivacy #DataCollection #PersonalInformation
https://consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com/request
#Windows10 is coming to an end. I won’t use #Windows11 or other #Microsoft products anymore. I really like #Linux (especially #ArchLinux). I don’t want to be told how or when to use my own #computer. I won’t accept #datacollection, forced accounts, or #cloud-only services. In the future, I’ll play all my #games on Linux too.
F*CK MICROSOFT!
It's an astronomical amount of behavior #data that is being collected on you. Is the only option for payment that isn't tracked physical cash and #monero https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX3JT6q3AxA
US as a Surveillance State
Two essays were just published on DOGE’s data collection and agg... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/05/us-as-a-surveillance-state.html
Windscribe Acquitted on Charges of Not Collecting Users’ Data
The company doesn’t keep logs, so couldn’t turn over data:
Windscribe, a globally used privacy-first VPN servic... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/windscribe-acquitted-on-charges-of-not-collecting-users-data.html
https://www.europesays.com/2022133/ Tinycorder, a multitool device to sense environment #BadgeHack #DataCollection #display #Environment #EnvironmentalSensing #Wearables
@Koexel the biggest problem being that we can't guarantee statistics collected that will depict which focus groups that the ads actually reach.
Not only that, but largely people on #WebSocial are largely against #ads and #DataCollection - for good reason.
I have a solution, but it entails another walled garden - or that platforms can guarantee statistics gathering on a contractual basis.