FedScoop: Fraud-focused bills passed by House follow ‘DOGE playbook,’ privacy experts warn

“The payment infrastructure — and co-mingling of hundreds of data assets and information resources — is of particular interest to Abigail Kunkler, a law fellow at the Electronic Privacy Information Center focused on surveillance oversight.”

“Creating national consolidated data banks of this kind is something Congress has previously ‘rejected in other contexts,’ Kunkler said, and could run the risk of Privacy Act violations if the resource is breached. The Trump administration has pushed for the breakdown of federal data silos — and run into legal issues with various data-sharing pushes across agencies.”

“’This is the DOGE playbook, disregarding walls that were put up for a reason and consolidating information in order to use that as a cudgel,’ she said. People are ‘not going to be made aware that their information will be used to continuously surveil them.'”

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