A File on Every Child: How Trump Accounts Lay the Rails of a Financial Surveillance State
In a single week, Treasury opened a federal investment account — keyed to a Social Security number and searchable by it — for more than 60 million American children whose parents never asked for one. Sold as a nest egg, the program arrives inside an administration that has spent two years tearing down the legal walls between federal databases, and that courts have repeatedly caught breaking privacy law. The question is no longer whether the infrastructure exists. It is who will be allowed to use it, and against whom.
