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#DOGE targets #ChildSupport database full of private income data
Associates of #ElonMusk’s group provoked yet another clash with career #CivilServants over sensitive government records
#law #privacy #InfoSec #Trump #TrumpCoup #TrumpPurge #USpol #MafiaState #Authoritarianism #Dictatorship #Autocracy #Tyranny #broligarchy #plutocracy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/06/doge-hhs-ssa-data/
#DOGE has sought access to a powerful database of nearly all US workers’ earnings kept by the #health dept’s #ChildSupport office, setting off another disagreement w/career staff over demands for legally #protected records, acc/to 4 people familiar w/the matter.
Over the last several weeks, #billionaire #ElonMusk’s team has clashed w/ #CivilServants over attempts to #access privileged #information or systems kept by the #Treasury Dept, #IRS & #SocialSecurity, among other agencies.
Earlier this week, however, #DOGE associates targeted what several experts & government officials described as perhaps the most sensitive of all — a system within a broader govt database created to help enforce #ChildSupport payments, which pulls a vast trove of #information, including income data linked to nearly ALL US WORKERS [not just those working for the Federal Govt].