Posted on 02/06/2025 3:16:52 AM PST by 11th_VA
Feb 5 (Reuters) - An email system used by Elon Musk and his associates to contact all U.S. federal employees operates "entirely on government computers" and does not use a non-government server, Office of Personnel Management officials said in a court filing on Wednesday. The court filing comes amid growing concern that Musk's associates are flouting security protocols when handling personal information and data as they work to cut staff across the U.S. government.
An attorney representing unnamed employees of OPM, the U.S. government human resources agency, asked a judge on January 27, opens new tab to issue a temporary restraining order halting use of the server used to administer the email system. In the complaint, Kelly McClanahan, executive director of the National Security Counselors public interest law firm, said the email system represented a grave security risk to roughly two million executive branch and judicial branch employees, along with an unknown number of contractors.
He also said the system was developed and installed without a required privacy impact assessment. Musk's associates used the system to send all federal employees emails offering a deferred resignation program on January 28. Government lawyers said in a court filing, opens new tab on Wednesday that a privacy impact assessment was not necessary because the system only deals with federal employee data. But the filing from the government also included a privacy impact assessment, dated February 5. That assessment said the system, dubbed the "Government-Wide Email System (GWES)," collects federal employee names, their government email addresses, and "short, voluntary email responses."
The assessment listed Riccardo Biasini, senior advisor to the director of OPM, as the system's contact point and was signed by Greg Hogan, the agency's chief information officer. ...
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Don’t these same “risk” apply to every federal employee?
How is the one team looking for fraud, waste and corruption is the one they are concerned with?
Is it possible they don’t want their fraud, waste or corruption discovered.
And by the way, why are the courts involved in a strictly Executive Branch affair?
No one seemed to care when Hitlery had her private server in a bathroom.
First thing I thought of as well.
Musk knows well about compliance.
Again, it’s someone who has actually accomplished things in real life and knows how to do things right.
Unlike servers in bathrooms, run by foreigners in basements etc…
This is ridiculous at face value. Every government spends tens to hundreds of millions with cloud providers. Luckily, even those systems can be locked away from the rest of the public cloud too. The end-to-end encryption and encryption at rest is very good too. In fact, the data might even be safer on a good cloud provider than with in-house servers / networks in many cases. It’s a complex area, but basically this is true.
This lawsuit is silly.
Recall the Madame Clinton "server" escapade? Remember the promise of no surveillance state? So many instances....
Uh, Musk's "kids" know far more than the bureaucratic dip-shit certified federal "subject matter experts" whose job is to write the contracts to hire outside companies to provide Microsoft Certified Engineers to provide the government with rickety old outdated IT systems and try to keep it running.
There are “no growing concerns” there is a desperate attempt by the villains to stop their wrong doing being exposed to the US People
Are Courts suppose to work on facts and evidence not “feeling” and “concerns”?
Where is the Plaintiffs evidence that any such harm is possible or being done?
The Executive branch is doing it due diligence to audit it’s Executive Branch agencies. Neither Congress not the Judiciary have any role here in dictating to the co Equal branch of Government, the Executive, how to do those audits
They “feel” their “might be” a “risk”? Judge should of threw them out of her Court. That she did not indicates she is part of the con.
Lawfare
Now that we’re trying to conduct an investigation at the behest of THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF THE US GOVERNMENT, and not a conniving, secretive secretary of state operating out of a closet, we’re worried about security?
Where’s my puke bucket!
…Hillary on the other hand…
EVERY EMPLOYER any of US have EVER HAD has our social security NUMBER.. ON A W-2 or a 1099.
THIS IS A FALSE FLAG, IMO.
THEY ARE THROWING ANYTHING AGAINST THE WALL.
MUSK IS TOO SMART FOR EVERY ONE OF THEM.
I WOULD APPLAUD AN OFFER FOR SERIOUS BOUNTY FOR ANY EMPLOYEE THAT COMES FORWARD WITH SERIOUS WHISTLE BLOWER INFO.
WHAT “STANDING” DO THESE PLAINTIFFS EVEN HAVE?????
VOTER HAS NO STANDING ABOUT the 2020 elections.
EVERY EMPLOYER any of US have EVER HAD has our social security NUMBER.. ON A W-2 or a 1099.
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Many years ago I was in a profession that required continued education and so I would attend a lot classes at the end of which I would get a nice little certificate to be hung on the wall. It was a long time before realized that it was common to not only put your name on the certificate but your social security number as well!
No body was even aware of ID thief and so it was a normal thing.
Fortunately that practiced has stopped.
Mississippi used your social security number as your driver’s license number till at least the 1990’s.
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