- Elon-mask headed the government’s efficiency department (DOGE), gained access Over the weekend to the salary system, which observes 276,000 federal workers. Doge’s constant access to sensitive data has caused concern about privacy and cybersecurity, as well as a relatively long -term target of an advisory group that continues to support the elimination of state waste and fraud.
The Department of Government effectiveness continues its fee to obtain tangible government information by gaining access to federal wages over the weekend, causing concern about long -term goals in the US.
Advisory conditions led by Elon Musk are now entering information about the employment of 276,000 federal staff and can view social insurance numbers and easier to hire and firefighters, two anonymous sources said New York Times. A system known as Federal Wage SystemIt is located in the interior, which processes the US Customs and Border Customs Protection, as well as internal security, treasury and justice departments.
Dage access to these systems may threaten cybersecurity sensitive government information, sources notes. When the senior IT spoons pushed away from the move, they were reportedly put on an administrative vacation; They are reportedly investigating “workplace behavior”.
“We are working to fulfill the presidential directive and make the government more efficient for the American people and started the actions on the implementation of the President (Donald) Trump,” the press secretary of the Interior Ministry said said Wealth In a statement.
Recently, Musk doubled the justification for the dog’s access to state data, saying it was a necessary part of detection and elimination of waste and fraud.
“These databases don’t talk to each other,” Musk said in Fox News interview Last week. “And this is really a source, this is the biggest vulnerability for fraud – this is that these databases do not talk to each other. Therefore, we need to reconcile databases. This is, frankly, painful homework, but it should be done and significantly improving the efficiency of state systems.”
However, experts on politics and transparency warn the acquisition of private information, will have consequences that are not yet determined.
“The ability to recruit all this information will be given to the federal government by unprecedented power and control related to this information, a number of things we just didn’t feel in the country before,” said Elizabeth Lard, Director of Civil Technology Capital Policy Center for Democracy and Technology, said Wealth.
What is the long game?
Over the past two and a half months in Doge Mus Also received access Prior to the domestic income service, which stores information about the bank account and purchase, as well as the Social Security Administration, which houses people’s salaries and disability and citizenship status.
While one of the most immediate goals seems to be The use of ii to order administrative tasks as well as in the end Social insurance privatizationThe ultimate goal of Moscow is to eliminate fraud and waste for some.
“(This) has never been clear what a long game is,” said Kerry Kaljanese, Professor of Administrative Law at Pennsylvania’s University Law School Wealth. “Allegedly, we were told to try to increase efficiency, perhaps to determine where there are people who pay, which do not actually live, or methods for auditing salaries.”
“It seems that this does not follow any of these conditions, as far as anyone can say outside,” he added. “And there is actually no accurate articulation of a comprehensive vision.”
Doge did not immediately respond to WealthRequest for comment.
Trump’s first game book can offer a hint of the administration’s intentions. During its first term, the administration moved to providing Additional information has been distributed Among the federal agencies, including the Ministry of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Immigration and Customs (ICE), to facilitate biological data and immigration status.
Last month Trump signed a similar Executive order To “eliminate information bunkers”, claiming that they provide federal officials by quick and full access to non -secure records, data, software and information systems.
“If you look at the conditions of data transfer that DOGE is trying to create, it looks quite similar to the conditions of the data transfer, which Trump’s administration noted that they want to create in the first term,” Lired said. “With the exception of using this information to use fraud, they wanted to use it for immigration purposes.”
Easter access to private information has provoked serious legal issues. More than a dozen lawsuits expressed DEGE access to sensitive federal data is a violation Law on Privacy 1974The law after water devices limits the sharing of private information with unauthorized organizations without the consent of citizens.
Even when cybersecurity and legal issues were weakened, Lired claimed, Dage’s access to the government’s sensitive data is still presenting unknown about the further use of the Second government, as well as the true efficiency of the great liquidation of the labor force.
“Something can be private and something can be safe and it may be legal,” Liar said. “And it can still be a bad idea.”
Originally this story was presented on Fortune.com
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2025-04-01 18:05:00
Sasha Rogelberg
