A frequent claim made by the USDS “resistance” is that DOGE has rendered sensitive personal information insecure. For example, the site includes
this by “Anonymous.”
You should care about who has access to your data and how it’s protected. If security is weak, you are the one who suffers. It’s not just about keeping bad actors out — it’s about making sure your private information isn’t shared, sold, or misused. That’s why data stewardship is so important. The government collects and stores a lot of sensitive information — like your identity, financial records, and health history. If this data falls into the wrong hands, it can lead to identity theft, fraud, or targeted scams based on personal details like your gender, income, or past addresses.
This heavy-handed fear mongering neglects to mention one very important datum. USDS was doing an awful job of securing government data. During the last year of the Biden regime, there were at least
11 major data breaches involving Personally Identifiable Information (PII) held by these government agencies: Department of Health and Human Services, Department of the Treasury, Department of Justice and the Department of the Interior. The breaches involved millions of Social Security numbers, names, email addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, dates and places of birth, biometric data, medical records, ad infinitum.
In other words, the claim that your PII was more secure before the advent of DOGE is nonsense. But most of what you will read on “We the Builders” is just old fashioned kvetching. The latest post on the site,
contributed by “Publius,” rages about an email sent from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) that goes as follows: “Please reply to this email with a list of approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager.” It stipulated a deadline of “this Monday at 11:59 p.m. EST,” and warned against sending classified information. This outraged “Publius” because it arrived shortly following
this X post:
Publius defiantly
declares, “First of all, we don’t take orders via X. Second, let’s get practical. There are 2 million federal employees. Elon and his operatives aren’t going to read 2 million emails this week. Let’s assume it takes 2 min to read each email, that’s 66,667 hours of reading!” Publius clearly isn’t the brightest bulb in the circuit. This X post and the subsequent email from OPM was a classic “pulse check.” In other words, DOGE just wants to find out how many of our dedicated civil servants are actually engaged enough to know that their superiors want to know what they do all day. A pretty safe bet would be about 20 percent or so.
There are, without a doubt, hardworking, conscientious federal bureaucrats. They do not include the people who created ‘We the Builders.’
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