From the New York Times:
Members of the Department of Government Efficiency uploaded a copy of a crucial Social Security database in June to a vulnerable cloud server, putting the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans at risk of being leaked or hacked, according to a whistle-blower complaint filed by the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer.
The database contains records of all Social Security numbers issued by the federal government. It includes individuals’ full names, addresses and birth dates, among other details that could be used to steal their identities, making it one of the nation’s most sensitive repositories of personal information.
The account by the whistle-blower, Charles Borges, underscores concerns that have led to lawsuits seeking to block young software engineers at the agency built by Elon Musk from having access to confidential government data. …
See also an article in the Washington Post on the whistleblower complaint.
The biggest question in my mind is why? Getting a copy of this vital database out of Social Security seems to have been an overriding priority for the Trump Administration. They had to have known they were doing something dangerous and probably illegal. Why the urgency? What did they want to do with the data? What are they doing?
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It seems pretty obvious. They put it on the cloud to expedite ethnic cleansing via deportation and indefinite detention. The more data they have access to, the easier it is to justify harassing and torturing both native-born and immigrant Latinos.
The conservative super majority of the Supreme Court voting for the “ URGENCY” to gaining access to our Social Security numbers. Why?
The Supreme Court, on Friday, for now gave the DOGE team launched by Elon Musk unfettered access to information collected by the Social Security Administration, data that includes Social Security numbers, medical and mental health records, and family court information.
In an unsigned order, the court, acting at the request of the Trump administration, temporarily overturned actions by two lower courts that had limited the DOGE team's access to sensitive private information at the Social Security Administration. The high court sent the case back to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., to rule on the merits.
The vote was 6 to 3, with the conservative super majority ruling in favor of the DOGE team. The court's three liberals said they would have ruled the other way, temporarily barring the DOGE team's access to Social Security records while the case proceeds through the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, writing for herself and Justice Sonia Sotomayor, blasted the majority for giving the DOGE team unfettered access to unredacted personal information "before the courts have time to assess whether DOGE's access is lawful." In essence, she said, the government's so-called "urgency" about gaining this access "is the mere fact that it cannot be bothered to wait for the litigation process to play out before proceeding as it wishes.
The biggest question in my mind is will anything actually come from this? The cynic in me says no. This administration will get the numident in the cloud to make it easier to collaborate with other agencies to persecute brown people, and then when the inevitable data breach occurs they will somehow blame it on Biden. Or Obama. Or Hillary. Or whomever is the scapegoat of the day. There is no justice, laws are pretend, and the most money wins.
Depends on whether he can squeeze that in between weighing in on new company logos and other totally important bulls**t that it’s totally appropriate for the president of the United States to be spending their time on.
Project Insight has begun.
This administration considers the American public property. To be used exactly the way they want. Medical records, employment, where we live, they can use those records for anything, manipulate in ways we haven’t thought about before. They are tracking all of us now. We are owned by them. Our medical treatment, where we live, everything, to be used against us. Wait until private companies get access to the information, whether to hire/fire, insurance both medical or auto or home, etc. if and when we leave the country, who we associate with, family members, everything. Between that and our phones, we are being observed at all times.
If I had done this I would have been suspended and then fired. But since this was done by the Peter Pan Posse they will be let off scot-free. Another reason why I'm glad I left the agency before Sleazy E, Frankenstein and the Peter Pan Posse have torpedoed it.
File this under "Even Mr. Magoo saw this one coming a mile away"
I honestly do not believe POTUS himself knows the disaster in SSA caused by Musk. If he knew the real extent of the deadly internal operations of SSA, he would be in every media announcing how he will fix things. I think he is oblivious to what is going on and his lower echelons are keeping him in the dsrk.
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