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DOJ Admits DOGE Team Caught Sharing Social Security Data With Election Denier Group (www.techdirt.com)

submitted 1 week ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[–] IHeartBadCode@fedia.io 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Shapiro’s previously unreported disclosure, dated Friday, came as part of a list of “corrections” to testimony by top SSA officials during last year’s legal battles over DOGE’s access to Social Security data. They revealed that DOGE team members shared data on unapproved “third-party” servers and may have accessed private information that had been ruled off-limits by a court at the time

Wow... Such shock... Much surprise.

Yeah, they basically were sending XSLs,CSVs of everyone's shit over non secure channels like Cloudflare shares, that had unknown people in it who didn't work for the Government.

Because they're all fucking amateur idiots who think they know what the fuck they're doing and they don't. So shit like "Hey brah, pass me that sheet you were working on. NP, posted the link in the Molon labe Discord channel, hey you should check the meme BindensProstate6969 posted LOLOL."

I mean why did anyone think anything different was ever going to come of this? And now a bunch of private citizen unknowns who are a loose collective fringe group and believe crazy shit has everyone's details.

[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

It is truly impossible to undersell the damage done by DOGE. Every medical record, every tax record, every criminal record most likely as well as mountains of other data on every single American citizen and any foreigner who ever came here is all completely exposed and open wide for the highest bidder. That cannot be put back in the bottle.

Big data is a fascist wet dream and we built it for them. What fucking rubes we are.