"As part of these cost-cutting exercises, the White House announced on 20 January 2025 that it was rolling back diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. It was claimed that DEI roles were "forced illegal and immoral discrimination", hence all federal DEI roles were terminated. Approximately a month later, the Department of Homeland Security then revised its surveillance policies, advising that intelligence-gathering activities based on gender identity or sexual orientation were no longer prohibited."
"The lifting of these prohibitions means the US government can now "legally" target people for surveillance based on their gender identity or sexuality. This decision sets a discriminatory precedent that could have global implications. Data controllers, wherever they are based, not only need to comply with all relevant legislation, but also need to be aware of concerns that data subjects may have about current and future ethical use of their data."
Donald Trump's second term initiated sweeping operational changes and a cost-cutting agenda, including creation of a Department of Government Efficiency aimed at reducing the budget deficit. On 20 January 2025 the White House rolled back diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and terminated federal DEI roles, characterizing them as "forced illegal and immoral discrimination". Approximately a month later the Department of Homeland Security revised surveillance policies to allow intelligence-gathering not to be prohibited on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation. The policy change permits surveillance targeting based on gender identity or sexuality, raises discrimination risks, and creates global data-protection and ethical concerns for data controllers and data subjects.
Read at ComputerWeekly.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]