A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

Re:A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his pub... by JumpCrisscross on Saturday March 01, 2025 @11:04AM (#43220616)

> What laws are being broken?

In this specific case? Unclear. Will wait for the lawsuits.

In the last weeks, the DOGE bros have broken the Privacy Act of 1974 [1] and numerous court orders [2].

[1] https://epic.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/EPIC-v-OPM-25-cv...

[2] https://tax.thomsonreuters.com/news/19-state-ags-file-suit-a...

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Re:A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his pub... by slashdev on Saturday March 01, 2025 @11:16AM (#43220761)

Given they have to be vetted the same way as any other government employee with that access, including security clearances, I’m not sure these will succeed.

At least to my mind it’s not clear how a government employee can have access but for doge it’s breaking the law. The devil is in the specific details.

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Re:A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his pub... by JumpCrisscross on Saturday March 01, 2025 @11:19AM (#43220785)

> they have to be vetted the same way as any other government employee with that access, including security clearances

We know this wasn’t done when they were rummaging around the Treasury. Courts are granting restraining orders because the DOGE bros acted so incompetently. (It’s generally incredibly hard to restrain government employees.)

> it’s not clear how a government employee can have access but for doge it’s breaking the law

Same way a park ranger can’t walk onto a military base and start rummaging through documents. Or start tweeting them. (Or hell, the President himself tweet your tax return.)

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Re:A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his pub... by slashdev on Saturday March 01, 2025 @03:04PM (#43223100)

> We know this wasn’t done when they were rummaging around the Treasury.

Sorry, do you have a source for that? Having trouble verifying it.

I agree there are standard vetting and security clearances, and they should be followed.

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Re:A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his pub... by JumpCrisscross on Saturday March 01, 2025 @04:03PM (#43223657)

Item 91 in the EPIC complaint [1], which was found to be sufficiently merited to permit a TRO. (It’s a legal filing. Allegations will always be couched.)

[1] https://epic.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/EPIC-v-OPM-25-cv...

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Re:A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his pub... by jonahbenton on Saturday March 01, 2025 @02:37PM (#43222823)

They were not vetted/bgchecked, full stop, and are not complying with any security controls. Doing my yearly fedgov security trainings while those fucks are yoloing with all classifications of sensitive data is, shall we say, bitterness inducing.

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Re:A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his pub... by slashdev on Saturday March 01, 2025 @03:08PM (#43223134)

That’s not what I heard. Do you have evidence for that?

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Re:A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his pub... by tomcam on Thursday March 06, 2025 @01:09PM (#43283190)

These have not been adjudicated

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Re:A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his pub... by asveikau on Saturday March 01, 2025 @11:04AM (#43220614)

Someone interested in filtering employees by union status seems highly suspicious to me that that someone is interested in breaking labor laws.

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Re:A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his pub... by gchamonlive on Saturday March 01, 2025 @11:23AM (#43220844)

https://www.oge.gov/web/oge.nsf/Resources/Analyzing+Potentia...

Self-assessed conflict of interest is conflict of interest.

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Re:A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his pub... by insane_dreamer on Saturday March 01, 2025 @11:49AM (#43221106)

Firing people on false pretenses (telling them they're being fired for poor performance when that wasn't the case and they're even being told by their overseers that it's not the case) breaks labor laws.

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