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13 states to sue over DOGE access to government payment systems containing personal data

apnews.com 13 states to sue over DOGE access to government payment systems containing personal data

Democratic attorneys general in several states are vowing to file a lawsuit to stop Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing federal payment systems containing Americans’ sensitive personal information.

Summary

Thirteen Democratic attorneys general, led by New York’s Letitia James, plan to sue to block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing federal payment systems containing sensitive personal data.

Concerns include security risks and potential disruptions to Social Security and Medicare.

A federal judge ruled that only two Musk allies could have "read-only" access.

DOGE allegedly seeks control to halt payments to agencies like USAID.

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I hope the states proactively do something to secure people against the breach. Are my life savings just going to go poof, without notice?
...I don't want my money to enrich Musk. Or fascism.
By the way, I stopped by my local bank to ask questions about what they can do. They said they can't do anything. However, they could give me physical Euros if I trade in my American Dollars. I think that I will do that. My gut says that the Dollar is a dead man walking. Plus, Elon can't steal physical money.

On one hand, fucking finally. On another hand, only 13?
- The rest are hopefully waiting until Trump doesn't have the power to pardon Musky.

Too late unfortunately.
Also suing them does nothing? The DOJ has been weaponized.
Going a step beyond non-violent protests would be better.
- Exactly, they already got access....
- I'm unfortunately not confident that the administration would respect a ruling that's not in their favor if it did happen. Will somebody actually enforce the ruling?
- Defeatist mentality only helps nazi's.
  
  Lmao fascist will never be stopped by paperwork
  Right now the defeatest mentality is sitting around and asking nicely for our elected representatives to stop supporting a fascist agenda while they ignore us and keep supporting fascism.
  Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
- Civil suits are not in DOJ purview
  
  I understand that, but I also don't expect this administration to play by ANY of the former rules or laws.

The whole chain of custody is fucked; we have no idea how compromised these unvetted teens with write access to these servers are.
- They're selling to the highest bidder already. We can't get any more compromised
  
  Source?

Would it be easier to start the government from scratch? Asking for a friend.
- That's what they're trying to do.
  
  But like a good one please.
- Was listening to a podcast about post Soviet Georgia and what Musk is going is eerily similar to what neoliberal wreckers did to that country. Replace all old guard government workers with people who bend the knee, dismantle anything that helps people (ie economic shock therapy), reentrench the church as a fundamental institution, and ramp up ethnonationalist sentiments.
  
  Seems like they have it all planned out. What the fuck..

... and we're going to get those hard drives back, right? And figure out what they did with that data, right?

should be 50…

Gee, WHICH STATES, AP?
Probably Texas, right, because they're big on their individual liberties, or so it says on their website. And of course Florida is big and tough, and Oklahoma loves to protect its people.
(Edit: I'm sure it's in the body of the article, I'm just saying these headlines about "# states do a thing" are clearly talking about red states or non-red states and they should just say so. the fact that they don't is utter shit.)
- Thirteen Democratic attorneys general
  First line of the summary, guy.
  Joining [New York] in the statement were the attorneys general of Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Vermont.
  No one is going to put all of that in a headline. Calm down.
  
  Again, I'm not saying they didn't have the information in the body of the article.
  And isn't there some other way they coudl have included that in the title besides listing all the states?
  Your first quote, for example.

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