The Trump administration admits even more ways DOGE accessed sensitive personal data

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Source: NPR

January 23, 20265:00 AM ET



For much of the last year, staffers who were initially part of the Department of Government Efficiency effort improperly accessed and shared sensitive personal data on millions of Americans. The Trump administration hasn't been able to answer how much data is at risk, what it was used for or why its unprecedented efforts to consolidate data are needed.

Those questions deepened last week, when the Social Security Administration said it discovered DOGE employees at the agency secretly and improperly shared sensitive personal data last year, but once again can't verify the extent of the violations. The admission came in a court filing last Friday, Jan. 16, that made numerous corrections to testimony given by top agency officials last year in a lawsuit alleging that DOGE was illegally accessing Social Security data.

In the filing, Justice Department lawyers representing the Social Security Administration wrote that two SSA DOGE employees were referred to a federal watchdog to determine whether they violated a law barring government employees from using their job for political activity, known as the Hatch Act.

The unnamed employees secretly conferred with a political advocacy group about a request to match Social Security data with state voter rolls to "find evidence of voter fraud and to overturn election results in certain States," the filing said. It remains unclear whether any data actually went to this group.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2026/01/23/nx-s1-5684185/doge-data-social-security-privacy

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Link to FILING (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.197.0.pdf

[Irish_Dem]

1. Musk stole ALL of it. This was his intent from the beginning.

For his personal gain and Trump's.

[UpInArms]

2. DOGE was always tasked to destroy everything and everyone

They are criminals and belong in prison

[Ritabert]

3. My guess is they want to target registered Democrats at the polls

[2naSalit]

4. Varifies...

What I suspected all along.

[Initech]

5. Elon Musk needs to be tried for war crimes.

Fuck him and his billions.

[joanbarnes]

6. Thank you to the courts for 'protecting' us.

[Puppyjive]

7. Here we go....

Social security has your numident. It contains your name, social security number, date of birth, place of birth, mother's maiden name and immigration status. They can also look up where your work. There is sensitive data that contains bank information as well. This is why the employees at social security tried to guard this information from the wrong hands. DOGE got it all. They claimed that fraud was was systemic at social security and convinced the public. They found no fraud. Who knows what they did with the data, but if I were gonna take a gander, I would say that ICE has it. Next time you do business with social security, make sure you tell the remaining employees how greatful you are of them. They have been thru hell. Fuck Trump.