‘Apartheid in the US’: Arizona’s secretary of state fights Trump’s plot to amass a ‘master list’ of voters

“This doesn’t have anything to do with non-citizens, because non-citizens don’t vote. Every study shows that,” he said. “So what you have here is an unprecedented invasion into the privacy of Americans, sold under a false narrative of illegal voting.”…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/03/arizona-state-secretary-trump-elections

 

Fmr. Social Security boss: Trump & DOGE created ‘greatest theft of personal data in history

Fmr. Governor Martin O’Malley (D-MD) joins MSNBC’s Ali Velshi to discuss DOGE employees unprecedented “pirating away” of Americans’ Social Security data and how it could lead to the “largest class action in American history.

Interview: 

https://youtu.be/5y8brPbFnTo?si=BzaTpREIu7aSqcoR

How Tracking And Selling Our Data Became A Business Model (Meghna Chakrabarti, On Point)

There are new calls for tech companies to stop selling your location to third parties. We’ll look at the economics and perils of "surveillance capitalism."
Interview:

https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2019/01/15/surveillance-capitalism-shoshana-zuboff-facebook-data

U.S. customs agents are searching more cellphones — including those belonging to Americans -- The Washington Post

The agency said the inspections increase is an indication that electronic devices are critical sources of information on potential security threats. ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-customs-agents-are-searching-more-cellphones--including-those-belonging-to-americans/2018/01/05/0a236202-f247-11e7-b3bf-ab90a706e175_story.html

US-born NASA scientist says he was told to unlock his phone at border (CNN)

A US citizen and a NASA engineer returning from a trip abroad says he was held at the border by US Customs officers who demanded that he unlock his phone. ...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/13/us/citizen-nasa-engineer-detained-at-border-trnd/index.html