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Homeland Security builds Orwellian surveillance database

Ellsworth Toohey
Nov 04, 2025
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Secretary Kristi Noem during Dept. of Homeland Security 2026 budget hearing (Shedrick Pelt / Shutterstock.com)

The Department of Homeland Security has decided that hoarding your Social Security data, passport info, and visa records in their shiny new surveillance system wasn’t quite creepy enough. So now they want your driver’s license information too, b…

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