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The Hill: DOGE efforts to access private data spark sharp pushback
February 20, 2025
Alan Butler, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, called the DOGE takeover “a monumental shift” in how the government handles its sensitive data.
“These systems are critical to the functioning of government, in some cases, to the function of the global economy, and they also contain some of the most protected and sensitive data about Americans, and there is a major risk that in trying to accomplish even their stated goal, that they could cause monumental problems for millions of Americans,” he said.
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