Posted on 02/05/2025 4:10:20 PM PST by 11th_VA
The Obama administration created the United States Digital Service to be a uniquely nimble organization. Elon Musk is exploiting that feature to test the limits of U.S. law.
When Barack Obama created the United States Digital Service in 2014, it was meant to disrupt the arcane tech processes that had led to catastrophes like the original HealthCare.gov rollout. A team of young, private sector workers had been able to come in and fix the site — why couldn’t they be deployed throughout the government to modernize an arcane tech infrastructure?
The launch of USDS was met with deep skepticism from longtime civil servants, but ultimately it helped start and upgrade numerous government websites. Now, more than a decade later, Elon Musk has taken over the agency and brought in his own young tech workers he’s deploying in agencies to “improve the quality and efficiency” of government IT systems.
But USDS has morphed into the “United States DOGE Service,” and Musk is using the agency’s uniquely nimble design to push the limits of U.S. privacy law …
(Excerpt) Read more at notus.org ...
More from the “non-partisan” NOTUS.org. They say all this like it is a bad thing. Let’s Go Elon!
“to push the limits of U.S. privacy law”
So far the only violations of privacy that I know of associated with Musk’s work is the Doxing of his 6 Wonderkids by LEFTISTS.
Probably a POS if Obama was involved. Musks people are probably debugging and revamping it. Still it’s good to use something Obama did against him.
h/t Lakeside Granny ....
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Tom Renz
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I inherently do not trust the media so I decided to look into DOGE myself and see what is under the hood. Initially I was quite concerned about the legality of a “new agency” created by executive order but that - just like everything else - is a lie put out by the mainstream. The order is here and the thread is below:
@VigilantFox
Awesome is true.
Another response is so?
Very.
Quite.
EVERY PLACE ANY OF US HAVE EVER WORKED AT HAS OUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER.
I NOT only worked at a various number of places between 1957 & 1980-—In 1980 I became self employed as a 1099 recipient.
EVERY SINGLE CLIENT I DID WORK FOR HAS MY SOC SEC NUMBER..
I SERIOUSLY DOUBT ANYONE HERE AT FR HAS HAD ONLY ONE EMPLOYER THEIR ENTIRE LIFE.
EVERY PLACE ANY OF US HAVE EVER WORKED AT HAS OUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER.
I NOT only worked at a various number of places between 1957 & 1980-—In 1980 I became self employed as a 1099 recipient.
EVERY SINGLE CLIENT I DID WORK FOR HAS MY SOC SEC NUMBER..
I SERIOUSLY DOUBT ANYONE HERE AT FR HAS HAD ONLY ONE EMPLOYER THEIR ENTIRE LIFE.
THIS IS A CASE OF MIS-DIRECTION/RED HERRING BY THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN GETTING $$$$ OUT OF USAID FOR MANY YEARS.
THEY ARE BEING FOUND OUT & ARE INCENSED THAT MUSK & HIS TROOPS ARE UNCOVERING WHAT THEY ALL THOUGHT WAS UNTOUCHABLE.
Part of the USDS creation, is to CONTINUOUSLY improve the SSA - it
Says so on their web site: https://www.usds.gov/
Well still lying
There is no “testing of US privacy laws” when the Executive branch audits its own departments. By this level of infantile partisan hysteria, the Government can never audit anything because of “privacy concerns”
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