The government already knows a lot about you. DOGE is trying to access all of it (March 2025)
www.npr.org

... Elon Musk's team within the Trump administration has sought sweeping access to databases that store personal information on millions and millions of Americans.
The General Services Administration, which manages federal real estate, is identifying property to divest, and the agency has abruptly fired more than 1,000 workers and is targeting an overall 63% reduction in headcount at its Public Building Service division.
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DOGE's effort to slash government is now coming for buildings and people who run them

The data collected and maintained by the government isn't just your name, home address, and Social Security number.

Some federal agencies store information that many people don't share even with their closest friends and family: Medical diagnoses and treatment. Notes from therapy sessions. Whether a person has filed for bankruptcy. Detailed income information.

And now, Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has accessed heavily safeguarded databases that store such personal information, raising deep alarm among federal workers and privacy advocates. ...

Senator demands to know status of 'duplicate' Social Security database 'immediately' (September 2025)
www.theregister.com

... A US Senator is demanding answers after a Social Security Administration (SSA) employee who blew the whistle on DOGE dealings involuntarily resigned last month, citing workplace hostility in response to his concerns.

Republican Senator Mike Crapo (it's pronounced Cray-poe), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, sent a letter to the SSA's commissioner, Frank Bisignano, giving him just two weeks to provide answers to concerns raised last month by now-former SSA Chief Data Officer Charles Borges.

The former CDO's whistleblower complaint alleged that the presidentially approved cost-cutting unit had duplicated a critical database filled with taxpayer information, known as Numident, to a test cloud environment that wasn't managed by Borges or SSA, and which allegedly is without any oversight controls.

Numident is used to store records of every person who has ever applied for a Social Security Card in the United States.

Crapo's questions are numerous, but one with a much shorter deadline stands out: He wants to know whether that duplicate database "was accessed, leaked, hacked, or disseminated in any unauthorized fashion," and he wants it "immediately upon receipt of this letter."

"As Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, I must take very seriously every allegation made by a protected whistleblower," Crapo added. "Further, given the large amount of sensitive data under SSA's control, I consider the protection and security of PII held by the agency to be a matter of first importance." ...