Wired [detailed] an effort at DOGE to fold[the SSA]
database into the DHS [database]
Specifically, mass amounts of personal data harvested
from the IRS, SSA
voting records in Pennsylvania and Florida were recently
uploaded into servers at the US Customs (USCIS)
[within DHS], which processes immigration cases.
[Rep] Connolly cited testimony from SSA whistleblowers
who witnessed DOGE engineers accessing the agency’s
IT system with “backpacks full of laptops,
each with access to different agency systems”,
with the aim of combining them into one database.
Connolly warned that not only would such a database
pose a threat to government cybersecurity
which siloes its information across several agencies
to prevent cyberattacks from accessing all info at once
it was also very likely violating several privacy laws.