Elon Musk May Have Your Social Security Number

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/elon-musk-doge-treasury-access-federal-payments.html

In case there is a paywall: https://archive.ph/HxVYi

Political scientist Seth Masket is sounding the alarm, as well:

There are many disturbing aspects of this. But perhaps the most fundamental is that Elon Musk is not a federal employee, nor has he been appointed by the President nor approved by the Senate to have any leadership role in government. The “Department of Government Efficiency,” announced by Trump in a January 20th executive order, is not truly any sort of government department or agency, and even the executive order uses quotes in the title. It’s perfectly fine to have a marketing gimmick like this, but DOGE does not have power over established government agencies, and Musk has no role in government. It does not matter that he is an ally of the President. Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup.

And Musk got it for practically nothing. All it cost to gain access to America’s financial data, the government’s Social Security checkbook, and presumably every U.S. taxpayer’s personal information was $288 million in political donations to help elect Donald Trump. That’s peanuts to somebody worth more than $420 billion.

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