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The fine print of a sweeping executive order seemingly grants Elon Musk — the wealthiest and arguably most powerful unelected figure in the world — and his associates at the somehow-still-real Department of Government Efficiency access to all unclassified data held by US government agencies,, which per the order will be tasked with "modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity.
When DOGE was announced late last year, it was widely believed that the "department" would operate as a federal advisory committee, a type of consultative group subject to fairly strict transparency rules., under the executive order, the Trump Administration didn't create a new federal advisory committee.
"It's quite a clever way of integrating DOGE into the federal government that I think will work," George Washington University law professor Richard Pierce toldthat the rebranding of the organization was an "A+ bureaucratic jiu-jitsu move" — and warned of dystopian, surveillance-driven outcomes that access to USDS-held data could foster.
"Is this technical talent going to be pointed toward using data from the federal government to track down opponents?" they told"To track down particular populations of interest to this administration for the purposes of either targeting them or singling them out or whatever it might end up being?" notes, DOGE could still face some headaches regarding the complexities of inter-agency information sharing and the accessing of certain sensitive data, particularly in cases where...
"It could be a bipartisan effort to make government technology work better. It could be an oligarch extracting resources from the government," University of Michigan public policy Don Moynihan told
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