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Former USAID employees are still stuck with their work devices. After DOGE demolished USAID, the Trump administration has yet to collect work laptops and phones that could expose sensitive information.
Uncollected work phones and laptops leave sensitive information vulnerable.
But in the chaos of the cuts carried out by Musk’s pseudo-agency, the Department of Government Efficiency, some federal workers say the Trump administration is failing to do even basic offboarding to safeguard sensitive information on their work devices. An offboarding checklist, seen by The Verge, tells employees to “send back all government controlled items,” including computers and phones, and asks them to provide a physical address to receive a mailing slip. Conversely, terminated employees having work email access creates a more acute problem for the Trump administration since it keeps the door open for leaks, says a former government official whom The Verge also granted anonymity.
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