# DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants | WIRED

<https://www.wired.com/story/doge-collecting-immigrant-data-surveil-track/>

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## What Jamie wrote

Nothing about the data being collected here would be limited to immigrants. Connecting the varied data sets together across organizations like this is in many cases illegal, but even further has the potential to create a surveillance system that undermines everyone, and is likely very riddled with gaps and errors.

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