Why would I be worried about companies using my personal information to catch criminals when I am not a criminal, right? So what if the Flock cameras watch and surveil my tag number, my travel paths, heck even my name and birth date? I don’t have anything to hide, and also, I’m broke so, at this point what are they gonna take anyway… good luck criminals! I live paycheck to paycheck, my credit is OK but if you use my identity … you are more than likely out of luck due to over extension (cough cough) all intentionally signed into a proverbial cage … on purpose… with the frail promise of building my credit.
If this sounds like you, then you, my friend, are not alone; as a matter of fact I’d hedge a guess you would be in the majority. I have reluctantly had to understand the importance of my personal data.
With the looming promise of AI Data centers around the corner, I’ve made it a priority to educate myself on what is coming. Consistently compared to the “Manhattan Project” the push for AI data centers are terrifying, why? Mainly because of the unknown, and I, my friends do not like to not “know” what is in my back yard. Especially because of the rural country town I live in, which is the data center’s equivalent of catnip. The space, the water, and counting on the good ole’ boy. The data centers themselves are an entirely different article.
My intention here is to explain what I believe to be a crucial understanding of the importance of our data, how it is used, and why it is actually quite scary. Objectively the “if you are not a criminal, you have no reason to worry” spiel is short, appeals to our internal morality, and is quite effective. Makes sense, however; during my research and casual conversation with those who have spent their lives on Capitol Hill, a clearer, larger, and dare I say, darker picture started to emerge.
Imagine the power of determining that you are who you say you are rests solely in the hands of someone behind a computer screen in another state or even another country. The ones who you trust to confirm that the flesh and bone you carry with you every day is connected to your driver’s license, Social Security card, bank accounts, birth certificate, and even home address, are also responsible for determining the opposite…that someone is NOT who they say they are…here lies the issue
According to the Federal Trade Commission in 2015 there were around 490,000 cases of stolen identity just within the United States…now here is the reality: today there are 23.9 MILLION Americans ages 16 and older who have reported they are victims of stolen Identity. Approximately $262 million dollars stolen through account take over schemes as of the end of 2025. Those who are 50 and older have the highest risk of Identity theft and…drumroll please…the biggest increases in cases are attributed to the use of AI, voice cloning, deepfake videos, and AI generated fake websites.
Now, pick your jaw up off the floor and stay with me. How does this make a full circle?
Remember when car phones were a thing? Remember when the sales pitch then was “We just want to make sure you are safe if you are driving, traveling and you are not near your house phone to call 911 in case of emergency” that spiel was also short, appealed to our morality, and was quite effective. I do not have to tell you what happened next.
We now have cell phones in our pockets, in our faces when we use the bathroom, the youth and children have shown a significant decline in attention span, overall physical, mental, and emotional health today directly attributed to screen time and constant access to social media… also, fuel for another article.
My point is this, imagine you are not the criminal, but the criminal claims to be you? How would the criminal know your driver’s license number, address, phone number, bank account information, unless your data was stolen and sold to the highest bidder? Every online transaction which has become impossible to avoid, saves something about you. Even the websites that claim to be “secure” work with data brokers who purchase your information.
The inspiration for this article? Blog? Words on a page? Regardless of what I label this, the need came from a young, not so famous, homeschooled podcaster Andrey Henson, who discovered government websites with coding and filters that are saving your most sensitive data without our express permission. Sites, every, or most Americans are typically forced to use if they want to travel, drive, or live.
The Drey Dossier has uncovered Passports.gov and login.gov, which are sites directly tied to the office of the U.S. President and has what I would describe as almost imperceptible parasitic codes embedded to filter, steal, and save our information for the “National Design Studio”. Don’t worry, I won’t get into the weeds. Andrey does and I would not do it justice. This is not information the public has even heard of, right? Not me! I feel a certain urgency, nay, duty as a fellow American to at least share this information. Throw pasta noodles at the wall and see if they stick.
Look, there is no way as someone who works a full-time job, has a family, is part of the middle/working class that I can do every single thing right or even be educated on every single change that is coming. I can choose to be open minded, driven by love and compassion for my fellow man, and most of all, try to make the most informed decisions I can to give the generation behind me their best chance. If you made it this far, bless you, and if you decide to look further into this yourself, Godspeed
Yours truly,
Just a Curious Crow.
Sources: Federal Trade Commission, Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book 2024 (March 2025); Federal Trade Commission, “New FTC Data Show Big Jump in Reported Losses to Fraud, Reaching $12.5 Billion in 2024” (March 2025); JDSupra, “FBI Releases Its 2025 Internet Crime Report” (April 2026), Andrey hensen, “Trump built a new passport.gov website,”podcast video @thedreydossier, June 10, 2026
