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Re:DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data by ethbr1 on Thursday February 20, 2025 @07:15AM (#43113810)
So an organization is massively accessing sensitive government data on citizens without transparency or safeguards?

Hence why people are reacting negatively.

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Re:DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data by scarab92 on Thursday February 20, 2025 @07:27AM (#43113895)
They'll be following the safeguards that each agency has defined.

Most likely this involves scrubbing any personal data whenever possible, or anonymising it whenever it's not.

Most of their work doesn't involve personal data at all, and they only come across it incidentally.

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Re:DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data by actionfromafar on Thursday February 20, 2025 @07:53AM (#43114078)
Where can we learn this information?
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Re:DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data by ModernMech on Thursday February 20, 2025 @09:01AM (#43114715)
> Most likely this involves scrubbing any personal data whenever possible, or anonymising it whenever it's not.

Don’t you think it’s a problem you can’t say this with certainty or point to an authority who has assured us this, and there’s no way to verify if it’s true because theres’s no oversight of DOGE?

Would you tolerate such uncertainty from even a SaaS provider? Why should we tolerate it from our government?

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