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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has canceled plans to introduce new rules to ensure that data brokers obtain Americans’ consent before selling or sharing sensitive personal information, including financial data such as income, credit history and Social Security numbers.

Data brokers create extensive profiles on nearly every American, including sensitive data such as precise location history, political affiliations, and financial data - often without individuals’ knowledge or consent. This information is frequently resold for purposes ranging from marketing to law enforcement surveillance.

“Foreign and malign actors with access to these datasets could uncover information about high-level targets, such as military service members, that could be used for coercion, reputational damage, and blackmail,”.

wired.com/story/cfpb-quietly-k #Privacy #PPI #PersonalData #Databrokers #CFPB #ConsumerProtection #DataPrivacy

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The latest #data demands are "absolutely alarming," & "reckless" & likely violate the #Privacy Act & other statutes, said Jon Davisson, senior counsel & director of litigation at the nonprofit Electronic Privacy Information Center. He & other advocates warn the data could be used to enable #deportation & mass #surveillance efforts & would do little to address improper payments.

"It is an unprecedented extension of the administration's campaign to consolidate #PersonalData," Davisson said.

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In 2024, #SNAP served an average of 42M people each month, acc/to the #USDA, at a cost of $100B. Only some categories of lawfully present noncitizens are eligible to receive SNAP benefits, & those without legal status can never qualify. However, a noncitizen parent without legal status may apply for the assistance on behalf of their #children who are #UScitizens.

#law#Trump#Musk
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The emails obtained by NPR also show the nationwide directive regarding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or #SNAP, follows a request by federal auditors for information that included #citizenship #data but not other data typically used to verify financial eligibility for the program.

#law#Trump#Musk

Exclusive: #USDA, #DOGE demand #states hand over personal #data about #FoodStamp recipients

The Department of Agriculture is demanding states hand over #PersonalData of #FoodAssistance recipients — including #SocialSecurity numbers, #addresses &, in at least one state, #citizenship status, acc/to emails shared w/NPR by an ofcl who was not allowed to speak publicly.

#Trump #Musk #law #immigration #privacy #InfoSec #ConspiracyTheories #TrumpLies
npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-53899

"Over the past #100Days, #DOGE teams have grabbed #personaldata about US residents from dozens of federal databases and are reportedly merging it all into a #masterdatabase at the #DHS… a #whistleblower had come forward to reveal that the master database will combine data from such federal agencies as the #SocialSecurity, the #IRS and the #DHHS. He also alleged that DOGE workers are filling backpacks with multiple laptops, each one loaded with purloined agency data."

nytimes.com/2025/04/30/opinion

The New York Times · Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy: DOGE’s Construction of a Surveillance StateBy Julia Angwin