The US Civil Liberation Union (ACLU) told federal lawmakers on Friday that Elvan Maskak and his State Department (DOGE) have seized control of a number of federal computer systems that have been restricted by firm data under the Federal Statute. In some cases, any deviation in how data is used is not only illegal.
DOGE agents have controlled or controlled a number of federal agencies responsible for managing personnel cases for nearly 2 million federal employees, as well as offices offered to the government with a wide range of information technology software and services. They have.
Unauthorized use of sensitive or personal data that as part of an attempt to clear the state of ideological motivated employees may be a violation of federal law. Privacy Act and Federal Information Security Renovation Act, for example, prohibits unauthorized access and use of government personnel data.
In a letter to members of several congressional oversight committees, ACLU lawyers emphasized access to Treasury systems that run the “majority” federal payments, which include details of social security benefits, tax repayment and salaries. According to wired reports from Tuesday, lawyers point out that in addition to the budget to the agencies or individuals, this is due to DODE access to “triple information”, including “millions of social security numbers, accounts Banking, business and business.
Lawyers write: “Access to and abuse this information can harm millions of people. Young engineers, without human resource experience, government benefits or legal requirements on privacy, provide unprecedented monitoring of paying employees Federals, social security recipients and small jobs have made their payments. “
ACLU lawyers emphasize that, in normal circumstances, these systems are undergoing years of training and experience in the management of sensitive data under the control of job government employees, all of which survived a comprehensive survey process.
The group has also filed information release requests for DOGE’s identified personnel communication records, as well as for details of any requests the working group may have made to access sensitive and personal data in the staff management office (OPM ).
Other ACLU files are looking for DOGE programs to deploy artificial information tools across the government, as well as any plans or discussions on how the workgroup program complies with federal laws that protect sensitive financial and medical information such as items. Transportation and Accountability Act of Health Information (HIPAA).
Wired reported for the first time on Thursday that DOGE agents, who managed the US government’s IT infrastructure, began to pressure to quickly deploy an AI Homebrew umbrella called “GSAI”. A source of previous GSA transactions with artificial intelligence tells Wired that the last fall agency launched a test program aimed at experimenting with Gemini, a ChatBot adapted to Google’s workplace. However, DOGE quickly identified that Jamini does not provide the data level by the working group.
