Dog just warms up

This is April, and the United States is experiencing a self -inflicted trade war and a constitutional crisis for immigration. It’s a lot. It’s even enough to make you forget about the so -called Elon Musk Ministry of Government Efficiency For a while. It should not.

To claim the obvious: Coch is still there, cutting off the foundations of government infrastructure. A little less obvious, it may be that the Doge project has recently entered a new phase. Thehe Krowning of Federal Workers And the contracts will continue where there is something left to get together. But from here on, it’s all about dataS

Few if any of them has as much sensitive data as the United States. From the beginning Dodge wanted As much as it can be caught and through a series of resignations, dismissals and lawsuits, they were mostly punched.

In many cases, it is not yet clear what they have done or intend to do with this data. Despite Elon Musk’s protests for the opposite, Dog is like opaque as VantablackS But the recent reporting from Wired and elsewhere starts to fill in the photo: Doge data is an instrument. This is also a weapon.

Start with the Internal Revenue Service where Associates Doge put the best and most bright career engineers of the agency In a room with people from Palaantir for a few days last week. Their mission, as reported earlier, was to build a “mega api” This would make it easier to review pre -separated data from the whole IRS in one place.

In isolation, which may not sound so disturbing. But in theory, API for all IRS data would make any agency possible – or any outside country with the right permits, for this issue – to access the most valuable and valuable data that the US government possesses for its citizens. The blurring of Dog’s mission begins to focus. Moreover, as we know that IRS is already sharing its data in unprecedented ways: Agency’s deal recently signed With the Ministry of Interior Security, he provides sensitive information about undocumented immigrants.

This is the corporate synergy of blacks, putting taxpayers’ data in the service of President Donald Trump’s crusade.

It also extends beyond IRS. The Washington Post reported This week, that the representatives of the State Agencies – from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development to the Social Security Administration – have been placed, which are usually fenced in the service of identifying undocumented immigrants. At the Ministry of Labor, as Wired reported on Friday, Dog has gained access to sensitive data For immigrants and farmers.

And these are just the data that remain in the government itself. This week NPR reports that a whistle at the National Labor Council claims that employees have observed spikes in the data leaving the agency after Dodge has gained access to their systems with unknown destinations. The further signal report claims that Doge agents seem to take steps to “cover their songs”, excluding or avoiding monitoring tools that maintain tabs who does what inside computer systems. (NLRB spokesman denied NPR that Doca has access to agency systems.)