Gizmodo: With Its Destruction of Government Data Silos, DOGE Is Building a ‘Surveillance Weapon’

A quick Google search on data silos will tell you that they’re inefficient and need to be eliminated. But as John Davisson, senior counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, told Gizmodo: “Personal information held by the federal government is siloed for good reason.” For the U.S., that reason is Watergate. The scandal revealed that the federal government conducted extensive surveillance on “opposing political parties, civil rights activists, and others it sought to silence,” Victoria Noble, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, explained via email.

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