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Feb 19, 2025 Workers at the General Services Administration resigned in protest over DOGE requests for access to Notify.gov data Tier 1 · Primary Civil Rights and Dissent
The resignations were a form of internal dissent against expanded state access to personal data and weak privacy safeguards.
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- Resignations at the General Services Administration over DOGE's data access requests — Workers at the General Services Administration resigned in protest after a request from a Musk ally for access to sensitive information from the Notify[DOT]gov system, which could allow unilateral access to personal
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Week 5 – 2025-02-15–2025-02-21
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Feb 19, 2025 Reports on DOGE showed that claimed savings figures were inaccurate or exaggerated Tier 1 · Primary Information, Memory and Manipulation
The discrepancies undermined public accountability by showing that headline claims about government waste were not reliably supported.
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- Claims of cost-saving measures by DOGE found to be inaccurate — Reports revealed that claims made by DOGE regarding $16 billion in canceled contracts were inaccurate, with one contract valued at $8 billion actually being closer to $8 million.
- Trump administration's claims of government waste questioned — The Trump administration and the Department of Government Efficiency have claimed to be eliminating "massive waste, fraud, and abuse" in government spending.
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Verified: Tier 1 primary record
Week 5 – 2025-02-15–2025-02-21
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Feb 19, 2025 DOGE tried to access Social Security and IRS databases containing personal information Tier 1 · Primary Information, Memory and Manipulation
The effort threatened privacy and expanded the reach of politically connected actors into sensitive state information systems.
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- DOGE attempts to access Social Security Administration databases — DOGE has been reported to be trying to gain access to sensitive databases from the Social Security Administration, which contain personal information about individuals, including income and medical records.
- DOGE seeks access to taxpayer data from the IRS — Reports indicate that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is attempting to gain access to sensitive taxpayer data from the IRS, including the Integrated Data Retrieval System.
Attacks
Verified: Tier 1 primary record
Week 5 – 2025-02-15–2025-02-21
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