Judith of York
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Retired federal employee fighting extremism in North Idaho. Compassionate human, amateur photographer, Idaho resident since 1983. Love lives here. ❤️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🕊️
Retired federal employee fighting extremism in North Idaho. Compassionate human, amateur photographer, Idaho resident since 1983. Love lives here. ❤️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🕊️
![There is, in fact, increasing pushback against the world Musk and Trump are trying to put into place instead of liberal democracy. In the U.S., the growing opposition to data centers, which seems to represent anger at the very wealthy tech bros who want to call the shots, is perhaps a sign of the direction the wind in the U.S. is blowing.
Whether that popular pressure can withstand the extraordinary amounts of money Musk and other right-wing billionaires are pouring into the midterms is unclear. Judd Legum of Popular Information reported today that Musk is funding an advertising campaign encouraging people in swing states to check their voting registration status at a different website than the one run by the Election Assistance Commission, which is an independent agency of the U.S. government.
Instead, Musk's campaign urges people to go to "votesafe. org," which collects their full name, home address, date of birth, email address, cell phone number, IP address and location (which identifies city and zip code), every link clicked, every page looked at, and voter registration status, among other information.
Legum reports that the privacy policy of the website "allows [Musk's super PAC] America PAC to 'share' or 'sell' personal information 'with our business partners," including "whether you are registered to vote" and "how you submit your vote... where permitted by law." America PAC can also sell "inferences" it makes about a user, including "psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities and aptitude."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a7nkgifd6c4o3nb5z3pk7r7b/bafkreid66dlfalgjiof6mteod7rorns6amphd2lpev74riupggthxslz5u)
