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pimlottc 21 hours ago

> > DOGE wasn't an audit. It was an excuse to exfiltrate mountains of your sensitive data into their secret models and into places like Palantir

> Do you have any actual evidence of this?

I will not comment on motives, but DOGE absolutely shredded the safeguards and firewalls that were created to protect privacy and prevent dangerous and unlawful aggregations of sensitive personal data.

They obtained accesses that would have taken months by normal protocols and would have been outright denied in most cases, and then used it with basically zero oversight or accountability.

It was a huge violation of anything resembling best practices from both a technological and bureaucratic perspective.

itsastrawman 21 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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blindriver 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> I will not comment on motives, but DOGE absolutely shredded the safeguards and firewalls that were created to protect privacy and prevent dangerous and unlawful aggregations of sensitive personal data.

Do you have any actual evidence of this?

pimlottc 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-...

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-data-access-hhs/

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/doge-...

fsflover 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46149124

blindriver 18 hours ago | parent [-]

The comment you linked to is deleted. Do you happen to have anything else? I'm concerned by the accusations and want to know more.

fsflover 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43704481

freejazz 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Here's one example. Have you not been following DOGE? You do come off like you're disingenuously concern trolling over something you don't agree with politically.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/04/whistleblower-doge-sipho...

overfeed 16 hours ago | parent [-]

> You do come off like you're disingenuously concern trolling over something you don't agree with politically.

Beyond mere political alignment, lots of actual DOGE boys were recruited (or volunteered) from the valley, and hang around HN. Don't be surprised by intentional muddying of the waters. There are bunch of people invested in managing the reputation of DOGE, so their association with it doesn't become a stain on theirs.

freejazz 15 hours ago | parent [-]

Great point. It's all so funny because DOGE was just so ridiculous on the face of itself.