I believe the Trump Administration’s “flood the zone” strategy is meant to distract from certain harm they’re causing that they don’t want people to know about - specifically, the misuse of your personal data. Here’s what I mean 🧵
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Sounds cool but guess what they already took the data. You can’t protect us against something that already happened. The only recourse is putting these goons in jail.
I’m glad someone is paying attention to this issue. Doge was never about finding waste and fraud . The real intent of Doge is quite sinister. I feel like I’ve been screaming into the wind about Doge & the security of our data and government systems. Unfortunately, I believe the damage has been done.
Trump and Musk won’t be transparent; at most they’ll just lie, otherwise they’ll just ignore all requests for information. Once that data was accessed by DOGE, we lost it. Even if they just copied the data. we’ll probably never know with whom they shared it, and with whom those people shared it. 1/2
The trove of data that the government has about each of us - ranging from taxes to income to immigration status - is incredibly valuable. How valuable?
At an @energycommerce.bsky.social hearing, we heard about the need to create a “National AI Data Reserve” to fully leverage the potential of AI for ALL Americans and the value of that information.
A huge amount of data is needed to unleash the power of AI but I’m concerned that the Trump Administration might be handing our data to tech companies rather than protecting it or using it for the common good. Hence why Musk’s DOGE minions are embedded in dozens of federal departments and agencies.
Here’s the problem: without House Republicans providing ANY oversight over DOGE, we don’t have the necessary guardrails in place to protect our data from bad actors.
That’s EXACTLY why we should ALL be sounding the alarms that Musk and DOGE are using AI models within federal agencies and freely accessing as much sensitive taxpayer data as they want.
And it’s not just that they have this information. They’re weaponizing it. The IRS has now agreed to share data with ICE to obtain information about undocumented immigrants (for the record: they now are admitting that immigrants DO pay taxes.)
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They need to be prosecuted quickly, to stop the rampage and further pillage