Federal News Network: GAO report on DOGE payments access ‘just the tip of the iceberg’

“John Davisson, deputy director and director of enforcement at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), said the report shows Treasury ‘flouted basic security safeguards’ in the rush to give DOGE access to sensitive payment systems.”

“’Despite Treasury’s conclusion that one DOGE employee would be in a position to cause ‘inestimable damage’ to security interests, the agency couldn’t be bothered to get a signed access agreement from the employee or comply with other baseline safeguards,’ Davisson wrote in an email. ‘And the result was predictable: that employee promptly broke the law and disclosed sensitive, unencrypted personal data to speed along the destruction of USAID.'”

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