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Trump, Doge Are Trying to Get Around Privacy Laws to Gather Your Personal Info

Donald Trump and DOGE want access to the personal data and information of nearly everyone in the country, including legal and undocumented immigrants.

DOGE has access not just to every U.S. citizen’s personal information thanks to the SSA data, but also anyone who has applied for or been granted Social Security numbers, like legal immigrants, according to court documents reviewed by Rolling Stone and American Doom. “To perform the Are You Alive Project,” DOGE employees “need access to individual Social Security numbers (SSNs), demographics, benefits status, and contact information, among other fields,” Dudek testified in his affidavit. Part of their concerns — shared by the AFL-CIO labor union in its DOGE-related lawsuit against the SSA — is that Musk’s organization isn’t following proper security procedures to keep Americans’ personal information out of the wrong hands.

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