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House Democrats: DOGE is building a ‘master database’ of Americans’ sensitive information (www.theverge.com)

submitted 9 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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House Democrats allege DOGE, the agency created by Elon Musk to shrink government, is building a “cross-agency master database” of Americans’ sensitive data.

“Mass amounts” of personal information from the IRS, SSA, and voter records were uploaded into USCIS servers. Whistleblowers reported DOGE engineers accessed systems with “backpacks full of laptops,” each linked to different agencies.

This effort “disregards important cybersecurity and privacy considerations.” Rep. Connolly warned it could “violate several privacy laws.”

“Aggregation of data is building a weapon,” said John Davisson of EPIC. “It’s terrifying.”

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[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Also Democrats: "We're still doing nothing."

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Important to get that shot in. Yeah, this is all the Democrats fault. So make sure you don't vote.

What a great and useful message you've shoehorned in.

[–] piefood@feddit.online 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I didn't see them advocate for not voting. I also never saw them blame the Democrats for this.

I did see them accurately point out that the party that is supposed to be the opposition to this stuff is doing nothing, and I don't see why the Democrats shouldn't be called out for that.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 months ago

Criticizing them for not arresting Trump and putting up a fight, means they support Trump... somehow.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

The dems spent 4 years complaining about the parliamentarian and blaming them on why they can’t do anything.

So yeah, gotta get those shots in.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 months ago

Yes if you change the words in someone's comment, they can say anything you want them to.

[–] magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 9 months ago

Both can be awful including the controlled opposition I voted for because it was still better than mask-off facism.

Just because its better doesn't mean its good enough.