There are risks to citizen data. Read access to Treasury includes access to millions of SSN and Social Security payments, tax data and tax payments, federal con

There are risks to citizen data. Read access to Treasury includes access to millions of SSN and Social Security payments, tax data and tax payments, federal contract payments including for classified projects, and the routing and account numbers for all of those people and companies. DOGE staff are bringing laptops in themselves. The previous U.S. Digital Service staff are firewalled from DOGE, including the IT teams who issue and manage equipment. And DOGE staff are using these random laptops to copy all this sensitive data into private cloud accounts for storage and analysis. That level of exfiltration of sensitive data is nefarious, and illegal, which is why a federal judge has issued an order to halt it. Please read the linked article. It’s by a deeply experienced and well-regarded security expert. I get that people are excited to dig out fraud, but sensitive data must remain secure in the process.