Recommendations of the Editorial team
The interim manager of the Social security from Donald Trump proposed on Thursday evening to effectively switch off the authority, which manages the basic safety network program for seniors and the disabled. If Elon Musk and his so -called Department of Government Efficiency (Dog) cannot access the non -anonymized sensitive personal information and data from hundreds of millions of Americans. This is based on a judicial order.
“My fraud fighting team would consist of Doge employees. My IT employees would be Doge employees,” said Lee Dudek, provisional representative of the social security administration (SSA), and argued that the order was too wide, as Bloomberg News reported. ‘The way it looks, I will stick to it and all SSA employees withdraw access to our IT systems,’ he said, adding: “I really want to switch it off and have the dishes decided how you want to lead a federal authority.”
Dudek threatened to prohibit SSA employees from using the IT systems of the authority. A step that could stop paying social security benefits. He reacted to a judge’s injunction in a case strained by the AFL-CIO union. The order prohibits civil servants from the social security agency, Doge, including Musk, and the SSA Doge team access to personal data. She also instructs Musk and Doge to delete all non -anonymized personal data from her possession. And forbid you access to SSA computer or code.
Confidential, sensitive and private information
Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander wrote that the SSA probably violated administrative and data protection laws when she granted Doge “unrestricted access to the personal and private data of millions of Americans”. “Including, but not limited to the following data. Social security numbers, medical records, psychiatric files, hospital files, driver’s license numbers, banking and credit card information, tax information, income history, working history, birth and marriage certificates as well as private and work addresses”.
She added that the “accused with the so-called experts of the Doge team could not give a single reason why the Doge team needed unrestricted access to the entire data systems of the SSA. And whereby opened personal, confidential, sensitive and private information that have been entrusted with millions of Americans of their government.”
Hollander’s arrangement allows the SSA to grant Doge members “access to edited or anonymized data and records”. If you receive standard training for employees who usually work with social security data systems. To ensure that you understand the applicable federal laws, regulations and guidelines for the protection of privacy.
Data protection laws also apply to Musk
In other words: Musk and Doge must adhere to the existing data protection laws. According to Dudek, the incumbent commissioner for the social security authority under Trump, this requirement is a reason to threaten to hire the safety network program. A program on which 71 million Americans rely on support.
Dudek comments at the Doge at a time Dozens of SSA offices close, possibly Restrict telephone services and want to ask the beneficiaries to come into the offices personally to Your identity too check. Changes that overwhelm the system and lead to seniors and disabled people do not receive their checks.
Musk, the richest man in the world, described social security without any basis as “the greatest snowball system ever”. He incorrectly claimed that millions of dead could receive social security benefits. The Tesla CEO recently said, he hoped 700 billion dollars of fraud per year, far more than experts suspect, can be deleted from claims such as social security, medicar and medicaid.
According to the Trump administration, Musk and Doge must have access to the most personal data of all people. Or the Americans cannot have social insurance.