> The Privacy Act of 1974 generally, and the Internal Revenue Code with respect to taxpayer information, make it unlawful for Secretary Bessent to hand over access to the Bureau’s records on individuals to Elon Musk or other members of DOGE.

Among numerous other laws listed in

https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/1-Complaint-7.pdf

Rule by lawyers. This is basically false.

People need to do work. And when bad things are happening, the principle is that you can not simply let bureaucratic rule protect criminals.

Are you really calling federal law passed by US Congress and signed by POTUS a rule?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_Act_of_1974

What bad things? What criminals?

You're making things up.

Should we be downvoting this person? How can we speak with this person? Bro, we need to reason with you, keep coming back.

Rule by law

FTFY

If I’m not mistaken they just may have received authorization from the President. Could be, I don’t know.

Not that that is sufficient for allowing legal access to all data in every case. But see the next part.

There’s no evidence that the wild claims about improper access to data are justified. Claims from people who have proven to be the opposite of truthful. For instance to shut down payments temporarily you don’t need to access data; you just need a cable snipper to cut the right wires. Reference the Twitter Sacramento data center solution implemented after the Twitter purchase. Or it can be done any number of other ways with changing passwords, etc.

Don’t believe everything you hear and read.

> Claims from people who have proven to be the opposite of truthful.

Interesting you say that.

All I know is that confidential payment data is apparently being handed to specific individuals, known to be partisan actors, who lost a bunch of lawsuits in court of law recently? Am I to just ignore that?

Not just* to shut payments.

Yes there are multiple things happening at once.

Information coming out is a good thing, luckily.