Everyone wonders why Musk’s DOGE is so intent upon gaining access to all the data and we know that Elon has said in the past that he really wanted to “get into the government servers” the question is, why? There has been speculation that he wants the data to for his own AI project and there’s evidence that that’s happened.
This article suggests they are consolidating all the data about Americans in a way that puts it at extreme danger of being hacked and used for nefarious purposes, which I would guess is likely. These people have shown they are very sloppy. But I think there’s almost no chance they aren’t going to weaponize the information against their enemies:
The U.S. DOGE Service is racing to build a single centralized database with vast troves of personal information about millions of U.S. citizens and residents, a campaign that often violates or disregards core privacy and security protections meant to keep such information safe, government workers say.
The team overseen by Elon Musk is collecting data from across the government, sometimes at the urging of low-level aides, according to multiple federal employees and a former DOGE staffer, who all spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals. The intensifying effort to unify systems into one central hub aims to advance multiple Trump administration priorities, including finding and deporting undocumented immigrants and rooting out fraud in government payments. And it follows a March executive order to eliminate “information silos” as DOGE tries to streamline operations and cut spending.
At several agencies, DOGE officials have sought to merge databases that had long been kept separate, federal workers said. For example, longtime Musk lieutenant Steve Davis told staffers at the Social Security Administration that they would soon start linking various sources of Social Security data for access and analysis, according to a person briefed on the conversations, with a goal of “joining all data across government.” Davis did not respond to a request for comment.
But DOGE has also sometimes removed protections aroundsensitive information — on Social Security numbers, birth dates, employment history, disability records, medical documentation and more. In one instance, a website for a new visa program wasn’t set up behind a protective virtual private network, as would be customary, according to a Department of Homeland Security employee and records obtained by The Washington Post.
The administration’s moves ramp up the risk of exposing data to hackers and other adversaries, according to security analysts, and experts worry that any breaches could erode public confidence in government. Civil rights advocates and some federal employees also worry that the data assembled under DOGE could be used against political foes or for targeted decisions about funding or basic government services.
Big Balls and the boys are putting this info together for a reason and it’s not good.
The previous decentralization of this info was a feature not a bug, keeping the citizenry safer from hacking and other threats. Bringing it all together is the perfect recipe for the surveillance state — and that’s what this is about.
Meanwhile, Elon’s teaching Grok all about us, in minute detail.