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DOGE improperly accessed and shared Social Security data
- jeffbee 9mo agoMight as well change the link to https://www.npr.org/2026/01/23/nx-s1-5684185/doge-data-social-security-privacy https://www.npr.org/2026/01/23/nx-s1-5684185/doge-data-socia...
- richwater 9mo agoThe NSA, state and local police departments have been improperly accessing my data for years. The only reason people care about this is because of the (justified) general anger of DOGE. Yet there are far worse offenders, with far more intrusive access.
- tdb7893 9mo agoI don't know why you think people aren't complaining about state and local police accessing data. I've seen these complaints a lot (though the state and local data access is a lot less visible, especially with the gutting of local news)
- lab14 9mo ago"why do you get mad at me when I do bad things? don't you see others are doing bad things too?! is it because you hate me?"
- happytoexplain 9mo agoPeople care about those other things.
- catlover76 9mo ago[dead]
- NoMoreNicksLeft 9mo agoWho cares? LinkedIn just locked my account (I don't log in often), and is demanding my driver's license to unlock it. Ostensibly to "protect me from identity theft". That's right. They want me to send my identity documents to some third world contractor to protect me from identity theft. Apparently they're doing this with many people... I'm supposed to be worried about the NSA? I'm not a Russian spy, and I'm no drug cartel leader. The cops and NSA don't give a shit about me. Nor DOGE, come to that.
- xpe 9mo agoThere is a phrase I like: don't fail with abandon. Just because the NSA broke public trust doesn't make it ok for anything like it to happen again. This data breach from DOGE is worse in many ways. DOGE employees / contractors are have fewer scruples and guardrails. This data has been used primarily for Trump-and-Company's advantage. All to the detriment of American values, such as being for democracy and reasonable capitalism while standing against authoritarianism and kleptocracy. The NSA's bulk metadata collection, while later found to violate FISA and likely unconstitutional, operated under a formal legal architecture: statutory authorization via Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act (from 2006 onward), FISA Court orders renewed approximately every 90 days, and at least nominal congressional oversight — though most members were kept uninformed of the program's scope until 2013.
- lifetimerubyist 9mo agoThe real link instead of incomprehensible blogspam. https://www.npr.org/2026/01/23/nx-s1-5684185/doge-data-social-security-privacy https://www.npr.org/2026/01/23/nx-s1-5684185/doge-data-socia...
- afavour 9mo agoNot only that, they did it with the intention of overturning elections: > The unnamed employees secretly conferred with a political advocacy group about a request to match Social Security data with state voter rolls to "find evidence of voter fraud and to overturn election results in certain States," https://www.npr.org/2026/01/23/nx-s1-5684185/doge-data-social-security-privacy https://www.npr.org/2026/01/23/nx-s1-5684185/doge-data-socia...
- gruez 9mo ago>they did it with the intention of overturning elections: >[...] to "find evidence of voter fraud and to overturn election results in certain States," The actual election fraud allegations are probably spurious, but regardless we shouldn't be trying imply that intending to overturn elections in cases of fraud is bad in and of itself. The badness comes from inappropriate access to the data, not trying to find evidence of fraud.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 9mo ago>but regardless we shouldn't be trying imply that intending to overturn elections in cases of fraud is bad in and of itself.
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- tshaddox 9mo agoHow many allegations of fraud need to be taken to court and dismissed before it’s no longer conceivable that this is a good faith non-partisan search for evidence of fraud?
- shin_lao 9mo agoMay be overblown, the IRS accesses this data all the time. Broadly speaking, the government knows your SSN. It was also my understanding many DOGE employees were Department of Treasury agents.
- thatguy0900 9mo agoDoge employees were notably also teenage hackers with waived security clearances.
- libraryatnight 9mo agoah yes, this admin has been an avalanche of crimes and abuses, but let's keep giving them the benefit of the doubt and making excuses.
- cap11235 9mo ago"Its just a prank bro, calm down"
- baggachipz 9mo agoHere's me being shocked. How could anything else possibly have happened? These amateurs (at best) were given unfettered access to everything with no accountability or rules.
- gtirloni 9mo agoI'm sure they will face the consequences /s
- ChrisArchitect 9mo agoPreviously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46707507 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46707507 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46696654 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46696654
- sidsud 9mo agoNot surprised - data exfiltration and Tenant Owner Azure access for DOGE officials were previously reported via Whistleblower Aid. https://www.eff.org/files/2025/10/06/085-15_ex_o_berulis_4.14.25_decl.pdf https://www.eff.org/files/2025/10/06/085-15_ex_o_berulis_4.1... "Furthermore, on Monday, April 7, 2025, while my client and my team were preparing this disclosure, someone physically taped a threatening note to Mr. Berulis’ home door with photographs – taken via a drone – of him walking in his neighborhood"
- josefritzishere 9mo agoThis thread too? The Voldemort rule is so vigoriously enforced.
- downrightmike 9mo agoWhat's their bail amount? Needs to be 10x the potential harm
- iou 9mo agoWhat’s the reason these always get flagged? Is there something inaccurate?
- timbit42 9mo agoAnything negative about Trump or MAGA gets flagged so fewer people will see it.