'Unprecedented': Musk team given access to private data of government employees for political purge - Inside w/Jen Psaki

[Rhiannon12866]

According to a new report by Judd Legum, Elon Musk allies have been given access to private data of government employees stored in databases by the United States Office of Personnel Management, which they are already using to purge government officials. - Aired on 02/03/2025.

[wcmagumba]

1. Boaty McBotox Face is into all our private stuff, when does he even sleep?

[SunSeeker]

2. There is already a lawsuit file over this.

Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service (BFS) handles more than one billion financial transactions annually for the U.S. government, both outgoing grants and payments and incoming tax receipts. While serving as the largest cash management operation in the world, BFS collects personal and financial information about the people and businesses on the other side of the transactions, including “names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, birth places, home addresses and telephone numbers, email addresses, and bank account information.” This is all kept inside government databases governed by federal privacy laws, both the Privacy Act of 1974 and, in the case of taxpayer information, statutory IRS rules governing disclosure. The lawsuit primarily alleges that the disclosure of hundreds of millions of personal financial records that are part of the system is unlawful and must be stopped. https://prospect.org/justice/2025-02-03-lawsuit-takes-on-musk-payment-system-takeover-on-privacy-grounds/

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Thanks so much! I sure hope that this is heard soon!