Doge cannot explain why he wants precise government data: NPR

There are less than 50 access to the Social Security Administration databases, including private financial and personal information of hundreds of millions of people.

However, only one of them has access to human resources and student credit files.

Akash Bobba is one of the many government efficiency employees that have access to sensitive, divided into sections, which have been collected by the government who has settled in federal agencies for the last few months. Billionaire Elon Musk directed by the team, the government records for the signs of waste, fraud and abuse, he says.

Bobba is also one of the many DOGE employees that violate the laws of privacy, according to a few federal judges and are given inappropriate training without appropriate training to address the personal identifiable information collected by agencies.

Last week in one order Preventing Doge’s access to social security dataUS Regional Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander Maryland government “The Doge team did not define or express even a single reason that the SSA needs unlimited access to all registration systems, so that millions of Americans have entrusted to their governments.”

Instead of a narrower approach to data access, instead of “modernizing the system and revealing fraud”, Hollander wrote that Dogge’s unprecedented access to protected data was equivalent to hitting a fly with a sledgehammer. “

In more than a dozen cases in the federal court, the NPR review of thousands of pages of records finds a worrying model among the agencies in which Doge has accessed, which has access to this, and most importantly – reason – reason – causes.

“You don’t need to know”

When President Trump signed an order that constitutes the Dogge Initiative, he directed his agencies to form special teams that will “be” meticulous data protection standards “that will provide full and fast access to all unresrive agency records, software systems and IT systems.

Numerous court applications and declarations draw a picture of the agencies that rushed to give Doe access without accompanying the meticulousness of the scope of data protection or work.

On Monday, a federal judge in Maryland temporarily stopped the access to the data of millions of union members in a case against Dogan’s Personnel Management Office, Treasury Department and Education Department. He continued: “There was no need to know a large amount of sensitive personal information to which they were given access.”

Judge Deborah L. Boardman said, “No matter how important or urgent or urgent the President of the President is, the federal agencies must carry out this in accordance with the law.” “This probably didn’t happen in this case.”

Hollander found several doge employees in the Social Security Administration case “Access to SSA systems was provided before the background controls were completed or the inter -institutional detail agreements were completed.“

One of them is the main beneficial record, additional security record and “Comprehensive information about everyone with a social security number,” According to the applications in the case.

According to an agreement Zaptı, Bobba’s work with SSA, Personnel Management and Education Department Office incorrectly corrected Bobba accepted to do any work on social security data from the agency center.

However, a statement of former SSA Chief of General Staff Tiffany Flick said that Bobba works outside the field from OPM, where other people can “access these protected information.” Flick wrote.

For the government, even lawyers cannot explain when and how DEGE employees get access to sensitive databases. Judge John D. Bates in a Ministry of Labor, “The defendants themselves accept inconsistencies throughout their evidence” Dogge.

After the re -emergence of racist social media duties, Marko Elez, a Dogu employee who resigned from his post in the Treasury Department in early February, said, “Two United States sent an E -Post to the General Services Administration of the United States”, ” control E -Posta account sent in a court file.

Considering Elez’s lawyers, Elez’s ability to change data in the secure payment system of the Treasury, it was “incorrect” and “accidentally”. Judge said Doge Access “He ran and took over with political pressure.”

In a power that prevents access to the treasury systems, judge Jeannette Vargas induced “There is a real possibility that sensitive information is already shared in the potential violation of the Federal Law, except for the Treasury department.”

Congress warned it against it-I am a century ago

When the Congress passed the 1974 Privacy Law, the deputies expressed their concerns about the personal information collected by Federal Agencies in their digital databases by “Omnivor real collectors”.

During the discussions about the bill, Arizona Republican Senator Barry Goldwater was concerned about “every detail of our personal lives can be collected instantly for use by a single bureaucrat or institution”.

Republican Sen. “I hope we cannot see the day in which the establishment of a bureaucrat in Washington or Chicago or Chicago or Los Angeles can use the computer facilities to bring together all the known information about an individual.” He said.

Fifty years later, it seems to do so by skipping training to address the most sensitive data protected by the government’s effort, Privacy Law, Agency Security Protocols and Federal Agencies.

The White House did not answer questions about Doge according to privacy laws, or whether the Americans would be concerned about the level of Dogge’s access.

The Federal Government maintains a large amount of sensitive data from the health records of veterans and Medicare buyers to the information about the companies investigated by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the National Labor Relations Board.

Rapidly placement of Dogan employees in the system is to raise the alarm bells for confidentiality and safety defenders.

Kristin Woelfel, a lawyer with a non -profit democracy and Technology Center, said, “The Government also said, Kristin The Government, a lawyer with the Center for Democracy and Technology, said,” The government, deeply sensitive information and the data it wants is necessary for this purpose and why it is necessary for this purpose. “If the government cannot answer these questions, Dogge does not have access to these data.”

Former CFPB Chief Technology Specialist Ereie Meyer told NPR in the NPR, “Both the frustrating and frightening ones, as well as the most sensitive financial information, we don’t know what they’re doing.”

Anne Weismann, a Professor of Law Faculty of George Washington, focused on accountability and transparency of the state, said that Dogan and employees have control over the “amazing” data amount for Americans.

“This is very ironic because Trump supporters are very worried about the government and the asset allows this data to bring together this data,” Weismann said. He said. “I mean, I don’t think there is another entity in the federal government with access to such data collectively.”

Weismann is also except for a lawyer for the non -profit government supervision project, which sued on access to records on how to work on Dogge.

Last week, Trump is a executive action This seems to be tending to “eliminate information silos” and share more sensitive data between federal institutions, including providing the government to “have unlimited access to all unemployment data and relevant payment records”.

It encourages Federal Agency leaders to find ways to cancel the existing arrangements and guidance in agencies and between agencies without mentioning confidentiality or data security.