DOGE Is Just Getting Warmed Up

It is April, and the United States is facing a constitutional crisis on a self-conscious trade war and immigration. It’s a lot It’s enough to forget about the so -called Elon Kastor Government skill department You shouldn’t for a while.

To describe clearly: Dog is still out, has moved away on the basis of official infrastructure. Somewhat less clear, perhaps, the demon project has recently entered a new stage. The Cooling of federal staff And the agreements will continue, where there is something left to do. But from here, it is all about DataThe

If any entity in the world gets access to sensitive data as in the United States, it is very low. Doge wanted from the beginning It can occupy as much as it can, and mostly have achieved its way through multiple resignation, bullets and court cases.

In many cases, it is still unclear what the dessert engineers did or intended to do with that data. Contrast, despite the protest of Elon Kastur, Dog is like that Opaque as vantablackThe However, the recent report from wired and elsewhere begins to fill the image: Data is a tool for Dog. It’s also a weapon.

Start with Internal Revenue Service, where the demon Associates has left the best and bright carrier engineers of the agency In a room with Palantia people For a few days last week. Their missions, such as the wired previously reported, Was to create a “mega AP” This will make it easier to see the previous buggy data across the IRS in one place.

In isolation which may not seem so worrying. However, according to the theory, an API for all IRS data – or with proper permission for any external party, for this matter – the US government will make it possible to access the most personal and valuable data about its citizens. The ambiguity of the mission of the Dog began to focus on the focus. More, since we know that the IRS is already sharing its data in an unprecedented way: Recently agency is an agreement Signed Homeland provides sensitive information about unregistered immigrants with the Security Department.

This is the Black-Miror Corporate Coordination, with the taxpayers’ data in the service of President Donald Trump’s deportation crusade.

It extends beyond the IRS. Washington Post Report This week, the government agency that the Days Representatives – from the Housing and Urban Development Department – keep data from the administration of social security – which are usually closed in the service of unregistered immigrants. In the Department of Labor, such as wired on Friday, Dosage has received access to sensitive data About migrants and farm personnel.

And it’s just data that is within the government. This week NPR has reported A whistle blower of the National Labor Relations Board has claimed that the staff observed spikes on the information about leaving the agency after receiving access to their system in Dog, the destinations are unknown. Whistle blower has also claimed that Dog agents have been shown to take steps to “cover their tracks”, monitoring tools to switch or avoid who keeps the tabs inside the computer system. (NLRB’s spokesperson NPR denies that the agency has access to the day’s day.)