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   Laffy (gottalaff@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 15:02:27 JST Laffy

   *double take*

   “ #Trump’s interim #SocialSecurity chief says he wants to turn off the program if #Musk and DOGE can’t access Americans’ most sensitive data”
   https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-musk-stop-social-security-doge-data-1235300785/

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     Personne (per_sonne@ciberlandia.pt)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 15:03:27 JST Personne

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     @GottaLaff

     This is right on the money:

     “...unbridled access to the personal and private data of millions of Americans, including but not limited to Social Security numbers, medical records, mental health records, hospitalization records, drivers’ license numbers, bank and credit card information, tax information, income history, work history, birth and marriage certificates, and home and work addresses.”

     She added that the “defendants, with so-called experts on the DOGE Team, never identified or articulated even a single reason for which the DOGE Team needs unlimited access to SSA’s entire record systems, thereby exposing personal, confidential, sensitive, and private information that millions of Americans entrusted to their government.”

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     Personne (per_sonne@ciberlandia.pt)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 15:03:28 JST Personne

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     @GottaLaff

     Their goal is to privatise it, so they and their oligarch friends have guaranteed rent profits for eternity - but that would be so unpopular that they can't say it out loud.
     This is just another subterfuge.

     Also, compiling and cross-referencing everyone's personal data (social security numbers, addresses, health records, IRS, biometrics, banking, etc.) and feeding it to AI is a great tool for coercion and control, allowing them to enact swift punitive measures for any citizen daring to come out of line with the regime and rewarding those that obey.

     I'm surprised that this isn't obvious for the majority of journalists and politicians out there? All the reporting on this seems to lack the sense of urgency and panic it should convey. It's all very "alleged", "claims". We're way past the pretense of politeness and due process. I don't get it.

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     lin11c (lin11c@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 15:04:03 JST lin11c

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     @GottaLaff
     DOGE can easily weaponize this data for DOJ "investigations" into citizens they don't like. They won't need any warrants. The court should order the arrest of this "acting" director who was under investigation for leaking information to Musk, and then AMAZINGLY he got the position!

     https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/social-security-chief-mistakes-memo-rcna196888

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     Brian Tatosky (virtualbri@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 15:21:48 JST Brian Tatosky

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     @GottaLaff "The GOP said they will stop your Social Security unless Elon Musk gets access to all your records" seems like a good simple message to get out to the public.