CNN: DOGE wants access to your tax and Social Security data. These two laws are supposed to protect you

“The animating principle of the Privacy Act is to provide citizens with information about what systems exist and about the data the government collects on them,” said attorney Alan Butler, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). “There should be no secret databases. It’s a transparency principle.” 

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Should DOGE use data from federal agency systems to create a new system without going through proper channels, that may be yet another strike. “It’s one thing if they improperly access the existing systems. But if they extract the data and put it in a new system – that (can be) its own violation of the Privacy Act,” Butler said. 

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