Data Centers!

You all have heard the buzz about data centers. So what do data centers do?

Well, there is AI.

Then we have all the stuff you store on the cloud.

But we also have... Trump's new voter lists! Huh? What are those? Well, you know how Trump wants all the states to send him a list of their voters.

Editorial: Federal information has become suspect

September 4, 2026

By American Press Staff

President Donald Trump’s March 31 executive order on mail-in voting directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to create state by state lists of eligible voters for federal elections. DHS would use federal databases to get the names, but those databases have been considered to be controversial.

The Associated Press has reported that an immigrant rights group sued the Trump administration Wednesday to block DHS from using federal databases that it alleged are being used to target naturalized citizens who are eligible to vote.

The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights filed the lawsuit in U.S.  District Court in Washington. It alleges that DHS and the U.S. Justice Department are interfering with fair elections by using inaccurate federal databases in an attempt to buttress allegations of voter fraud.

Everyone but Trump & Company knows that there is no widespread voter fraud and that he is using that excuse to build a massive database on the citizens... just like China, North Korea, and Russia.  So now Trump is before the Supreme Court begging them to let him do it.

The lawsuit alleges that the administration might be comparing voter rolls with undisclosed government databases. Those systems can include outdated information and be riddled with errors, it said, and could produce inaccurate results that disproportionately affect naturalized voters.

“Comparing government databases to try and arrive at a list of noncitizen registrants has been shown to result in erroneous data,” the lawsuit said.

“Congress has never authorized such activities and in fact has prohibited invasion of voter privacy through government data matches in this way.”

I don't know about you... but this doesn't give me a warm fuzzy feeling.

The Fulcrum reports that,

Trump’s Plan to Gather Data on Every Voter Will Cripple Democracy

By Austin Sarat

Jan 17, 2026

On January 8, Texas turned over to the Justice Department a treasure trove of information about every voter in the Lone Star state. Names, addresses, voters’ party registrations, whether they had ever cast a preliminary ballot, and more, all of it to be provided in response to the Trump administration’s unprecedented demand for data on voters everywhere.

For a state that has long prided itself on its fierce independence and resistance to federal overreach, one might have expected it to put up a fight. But here, as in many other areas, partisan loyalty displaced state pride.

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As an article in Texas Monthly explains, “The Justice Department last fall began asking all 50 states for their voter rolls — massive lists containing significant identifying information on every registered voter in each state — and other election-related data.” It claimed that “the effort is central to its mission of enforcing election law requiring states to regularly maintain voter lists by searching for and removing ineligible voters.”}

The United States Constitution: Article I, Section 4, Clause 1:

The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators. 

Not Trump! But Congress and the states.

The Fulcrum goes on to report...

The unredacted lists include “sensitive personal information, such as driver’s license and partial Social Security numbers.” Stateline’s Jonathan Shorman points out that “The administration’s lawsuits mostly target Democratic states, where election officials refused initial requests for voter data and allege the demand is unlawful….”

Why do they need all that information on us... so when they merge the databases you can link the fields.

Now Trump is going back to court to try and get his way.

Supreme Court Faces New Decision on Trump’s Mail-in Ballot USPS Changes

Newsweek

By Alex Backus

Sep 03, 2026

The Trump administration again asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow new restrictions on mail-in voting to take effect, just one day before the first mail ballots are set to go out for November’s midterm elections.

The emergency request comes as legal challenges to President Donald Trump’s executive order continue in lower courts.

The Supreme Court previously allowed the administration’s plan to move forward while litigation continues, but the justices have not yet ruled on whether the policy is legal.

Trump & Company are running scared and he could do anything... declare a national emergency! Say there is massive illegal voting by non-citizens. He can make up a thousand excuses.

The latest Supreme Court filing came hours after a federal court hearing in Boston, where a Justice Department attorney was unable to tell a judge whether the system needed to carry out the new requirements was operational.

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani repeatedly pressed Justice Department attorney Michael Velchik for details about whether the Postal Service could implement the plan outlined in Trump’s executive order, which was issued last spring.

Then we have the big lie;

Asking for that information suggests that something else may be motivating the administration’s massive data mining effort. In the run-up to the 2026 elections, it may help it to precisely target Democratic voters and accuse them of election fraud or Democratic states for accusations of election irregularities.

But the plan doesn’t stop there. The Justice Department intends to share the data it gets with the Department of Homeland Security.

DHS will use it as part of its aggressive citizenship verification efforts. In addition, the department argues that “This collaboration with the DOJ will lawfully and critically enable DHS to prevent illegal aliens from corrupting our republic’s democratic process and further ensure the integrity of our elections nationwide.”

“Elections,” it insists, “exist for the American people to choose their leaders, not illegal aliens.”}

All those virtual illegal aliens voting! 

The unredacted lists include “sensitive personal information, such as driver’s license and partial Social Security numbers.” Stateline’s Jonathan Shorman points out that “The administration’s lawsuits mostly target Democratic states, where election officials refused initial requests for voter data and allege the demand is unlawful….”

Can you imagine merging data bases with like Flock's ALPRs? (See below the hash line)

That is where the real danger lies.. merging of databases!

Imagine... You are a trans person running a non-profit that helps trans people sue for their legal rights. Well the Baptist News said that Trump's administration have frequently invoked high-profile acts of violence—such as the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk—to claim that "extreme transgender ideologies" are driving a rise in left-wing domestic extremism.

That is the worry... the massive database will be used to track down trans people! All our information will allow the government to find us. They did it in Kansas, they used databases to track us down and revoke our driver licenses! They could also use it for more sinister and nefarious reasons.

So Trump is pushing data centers, exempting them from environmental laws public and hide them form public scrutiny. Why?

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Then we have Flock's training film...

Flock Taught Cops How to Surveil No Kings Protesters

Jason Koebler

404

Sep 3, 2026

Flock taught cops how they could surveil the No Kings protests and “small parades” using a mix of Flock’s technology and law enforcement’s own databases in a webinar last year. As Flock publicly downplays the power of its automated license plate camera network and highlights its use to solve violent crime, the company’s seemingly endless trove of webinars, training sessions, and blog posts show it offers far more invasive capabilities.

In the webinar, Flock’s director of market management Caity Peak explains how real time crime centers — which are police surveillance centers that utilize Flock cameras and other surveillance cameras — can be used for emergency response, but can also be used to surveil “established events” like 4th of July fireworks displays, parades, bike races, Mardi Gras, and protests. The webinar shows just how routine the idea of always-on surveillance has become, and how casually it is used during extremely innocuous events. 

Peak explains that police can use FlockOS, a software platform that combines Flock’s automatic license plate readers (ALPR), drones, gunshot detectors, 911 data, and other surveillance cameras (including ones Flock does not own) into a “single pane of glass” or single piece of software to look at various types of surveillance in one place during both emergencies and relatively mundane events in a city or town. 

Interlocking databases!

404 Media and the Electronic Frontier Foundation previously showed that police have specifically used Flock cameras to monitor the No Kings protests and other First Amendment-protected activity. 404 Media found California cops used Flock to monitor an “immigration protest.” The EFF found that the following law enforcement agencies ran Flock searches related to No Kings protests and rallies:

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This webinar shows this type of surveillance is not anomalous, and is specifically taught by Flock. The webinar also shows that Flock’s latest public stance — that its ALPR cameras are noninvasive technology, that they take only static images at a single place and time, and that they are primarily used to solve the worst crimes — is wildly misleading. Flock has time and time again pitched itself to police as a sort of operating system to solve crime and do real-time surveillance and predictive policing. ALPRs are just one part of this broader surveillance apparatus that Flock has created, markets to police, and teaches them how to use. These real time crime centers are proving increasingly popular with police; Flock now says on its website that more than 4,800 cities around the country are running FlockOS software. 

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My take on ALPRs and all the other monitoring systems.

Look we are not going to put the genie back in the bottle. Yes it does help solves crimes. So what I see are laws governing who cane see the photos without a warrant and for how long can they access the data. Who can link databases. At the very lease if say within 14 day only the speed cop can use the data. Anyone else needs warrant. We need to put leashes on the data.

The camera data must be the property of the municipality and not the camera company. It needs to be something like being bound by strict public records and privacy acts—meaning it cannot be harvested indefinitely, traded across state lines to federal or state agencies without oversight, or used to build a permanent commercial ledger.

Even with state laws that have all these protections data still gets traded so there needs to auditing with stiff bite. Fines should hurt their bottom line otherwise it will just be a business expense... We figured the $1000 fine in to the price of buying the data. And go after management and the Board of Directors! 

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I started out with data centers, but data centers are being built to hold all this surveillance. Just think about the APLRs cameras... just think all the data storage they need to hold from all those cameras!