Feds now admit DOGE accessed personal data at Social Security, jeopardizing your privacy
Back in March, Social Security officials
swore to a federal judge that members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team never had access to individuals’ personal information held at the agency, and certainly could not have misused it even if they had.
The Social Security Administration has now taken all that back.
In a
“notice of corrections” filed Jan. 16 in a federal lawsuit brought by public employee unions alleging privacy violations by SSA under Trump, the agency confessed that DOGE staffers indeed had the access that it had previously denied.
It acknowledged that DOGE staffers traded some of that information among themselves and transferred some of it to a non-Social Security server — and that even now Social Security can’t find out what information was raided.
The government denied that DOGE had misused private data held by Social Security. Now it admits that staffers did indeed access private information.
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