i work on mainframe computers - the story goes that if you worked for something government related, you would be working with very old, outdated equipment - i seem to recall that the irs was given a gazillion tax dollars to overhaul their computer systems - with the result being that it was all thrown out because it could not function
so if tomorrow, visa was ready to transmit all the data the congress wants to get their hands on - where would uncle sam store it? maybe the nsa could handle it - not sure how they would get the info from a covert agency to something like the irs
it would take lots of computer horsepower to sort or search the data for information that you needed - even to set up a datacenter capable of housing the equipment would cost a big chunk of change (but hey - its just our tax dollars) - i wonder if congress funded all that
maybe the data will all be sent to the irs info tech nerds that can't get anything right - that would make the first query performed on it scheduled for about 20 years away
FU
“I wonder if Congress funded all that.”
Absolutely! /s
Although this is a total invasion of privacy (tacked on to the Housing Bill), that most Americans aren’t even aware of, the implementation will leave it dead in the water, imo.
But as life time jobs go...it could be a bird’s nest on the ground.