Source: The Atlantic
by Ian Bogost & Charlie Warzel
“If you were tasked with building a panopticon, your design might look a lot like the information stores of the U.S. federal government — a collection of large, complex agencies, each making use of enormous volumes of data provided by or collected from citizens. The federal government is a veritable cosmos of information, made up of constellations of databases …. A fragile combination of decades-old laws, norms, and jungly bureaucracy has so far prevented repositories such as these from assembling into a centralized American surveillance state. But that appears to be changing.” (04/27/25)