Posted on 09/04/2019 9:32:31 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Would partner with Big Tech to use spy data from Amazon, Google and Apple.
The Trump administration is considering launching a social credit score-style system in coordination with Big Tech that would use spy data collected from Amazon, Google and Apple devices to determine whether or not an individual can own a gun.
“The proposal is part of an initiative to create a Health Advanced Research Projects Agency (HARPA), which would be located inside the Health and Human Services Department,” reports the Daily Caller. “The new agency would have a separate budget and the president would be responsible for appointing its director.”
HARPA would employ “breakthrough technologies with high specificity and sensitivity for early diagnosis of neuropsychiatric violence,” including Apple Watches, Amazon Echo and Google Home.
In other words, data collected from devices that spy on private conversations and closely monitor user behavior would be used to strip Americans of their fundamental rights.
“Though the proposal is starting as a voluntary data collection scheme allegedly aimed at finding warning signs of mental illness, we all know so-called “voluntary” government programs often become mandatory at the drop of a hat,” comments Chris Menahan.
According to the Washington Post, Trump has reacted “very positively” to the idea.
The full scope of the program is chilling and would provide Big Tech with an easy excuse to formally impose the total neuro-surveillance of citizens via their smart phone and home assistant devices, something that has already been occurring surreptitiously for years.
One wonders if Trump has any idea of the slippery slope this would entail, or whether he was sold on the idea because Ivanka cried.
The proposal bears some similarities to Communist China’s social credit score system, where citizens’ behavior is tightly surveilled and then met with rewards or punishments.
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Terrible move...
This would certainly cost him the election for sure if President Trump was able to get this through.
Where does being a Free Republic Poster rank?
NFW!
If they implement this they’ll take away my clothes so I can’t leave the house :)
Not that that would stop me.
Never give the government a way to take your Liberty.
I fear a hot 2nd CW is not a question of if, but of when.
What if someone like my Dad tries to buy a pistol. He has no online presence whatsoever, how does he rate.
I suspect this is fake news.
“According to the Washington Post”
FAKE NEWS
I don’t recall the 2nd amendment saying you need to pass a test
Gads! This idea is so bad it must be Ivanka’s.
80+% of his base will sit home for sure.
they really can’t wait to get that social credit score thingy going in SOME venue.
Fed.gov thinks we’re ALL deplorable....can’t end well
From another anonymous source at the WaPo? It doesn’t pass the smell test.
It even sounds a bit like a trial balloon.
I always find it funny that people hang on every word Trump sez.
That’s what makes him such a good troll.:)
A’yup...
Do you want to lose an election? Because this is how you lose an election.
Sounds like a Jared idea to me. None of his other plans have had any basis in reality either.
Fake News
They’ll have to pass the bill before you can find out.
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