Only this morning did I realize that the book of Götz Aly has also been published in English with a preview at Google books
“Nazi Census” documents the origins of the census in modern Germany, along with the parallel development of machines that helped first collect data on Germans. Or read IBM and the Holocaust which has more details on IBM’s conscious co-planning and co-organizing of the Holocaust for the Nazis.
Why should you read that? Not because of Nazis but because authoritarians thrive on data. Here are todays news
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US plans to merge all government data. A large-scale effort, led by Elon Musk’s team, aims to link federal databases — raising serious concerns among privacy and security experts.
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services begin screening immigrants’ social media accounts as grounds to deny visa and green-card applications.
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And here is an article from the Dean of the UC Berkeley Law School Erwin Chemerinsky and the emeritus Harvard constitutional law professor Lawrence Tribe about the consequences: “We should all be very, very afraid”.