Trump and Musk, with their DOGE gambit, released Social Security data to a partisan organization devoted to election denial. This was only one of several acts betraying the privacy of Americans committed by DOGE.
This issue resurfaced last month when the Department of Justice submitted amended testimony from senior SSA officials in which they acknowledged several instances of breached data by DOGE employees.
The amended filings were barely covered when they were filed in mid-January and they have disappeared from the public debate, but I wanted to discuss them because these data breaches were major betrayals of the privacy of Americans by the political and tech leaders who dominate our cultural landscape.
Privacy and data security are important priorities and provide pivotal metrics for judging their trustworthiness. These data breaches deserve more attention from the American public.
The two major news articles I found were by The Washington Post and NPR.
