DOGE employees may have improperly accessed social security data, DOJ says

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  1. > Members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team may have accessed Social Security information that was off-limits under a court ruling and shared agency data on third-party servers

    > At least two DOGE employees, the filing reveals, were in touch with a political advocacy group that asked them to analyze data from state voter rolls as part of its effort to overturn election results.

    Yet another incident that should absolutely every American, regardless of political affliation, should have an issue with.

    This is a team of inexperienced and compromised individuals accessing our most sensitive personal data for blatantly political reasons at the behest of a “political advocacy group”.

    Unfortunately, the minority of Americans who voted against this are surrounded by MAGA shitheads who actually support this, and apathetic non-voters who still think “both sides are the same”.

  2. That they did it is not surprising, that the DOJ accuses them of it is surprising. Maybe a fresh new bribe is in the works.

  3. That is an understatement.

    Including foreign countries.

    Black hats, foreign governments and scammers are probably having a field ~~day~~ year over the amount of info stolen.

  4. May have? How about they did? And how about they did because that was the purpose of the whole enterprise. Nationalize Spacex.

  5. They had to fire everyone who tried to prevent them from getting unfettered access to resources. This was obviously happening, and called out at the time, if the DOJ is actually admitting it that means its worse than anyone would have possibly guessed – I’d guess they’re getting ahead of leaks or some upcoming reporting or something.