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Jan 31, 2025 Aides aligned with Elon Musk locked career civil servants out of federal personnel data systems Tier 1 · Primary Information, Memory and Manipulation
The lockout concentrated control over sensitive government information and raised transparency, privacy, and accountability concerns.
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- Musk aides lock civil servants out of data systems — Aides to Elon Musk, in charge of the US government human resources agency, reportedly locked career civil servants out of computer systems containing personal data of millions of federal employees.
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Week 2 – 2025-01-25–2025-01-31
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