DOGE’s tech takeover threatens the safety and stability of our critical data

Many people may remember healthcare. After the law of care at reasonable prices, the Healthcare.gov was launched in October 2013 to facilitate the expected wave of insurance recordings. But the tremendous demand that was famous for the site after two hours of launch. On that first day, only six people were able to complete the registration process. In the aftermath of the chaos, the US digital service (USDS) and 18F formed the Digital Services Office for Public Services Management. These agencies – which are now dismantled by Dog – have experienced experienced technicians from industry to improve critical infrastructure throughout the federal government, including the Social Security Administration and Old Warriors Affairs.

Over the past decade, USDs and 18f have worked to build a safe and safe infrastructure for the people of the United States. DirectFile, the free digital tax deposit system launched by the Public Tax Authority last, from years of careful search, design, engineering and a multi -centered studied version. As a result, 90 % of people who used DirectFile and responded to the survey said that their experience was excellent or higher than average, and 86 % reported that DirectFile increased their confidence in the Tax Authority. Recently, Sam Korkos, an IRS staff, told the IRS staff that he was planning to kill the program. When 21 experienced technicians left their jobs in USDs in January after their colleagues were abandoned, they did not object to political foundations. Instead, they preferred to quit “assignment of basic government services” under Doge, whose orders are not compatible with the original USDS mission.

With the collapse of Dog Graphics through technological systems, the walls of protection collapse between government agencies and flood gates are open to disasters that share data that will affect everyone. For example, the decision to give immigration and customs to access the tax department data and databases of the underage data are created immediate risks to immigrants, regardless of their legal status. Everyone threatens, albeit less than that, as the social security number for each Americans, tax declarations, benefits, and health care records in a huge and poorly guaranteed data set.

This is not just speculation. We have already seen how data violations in companies like Equifax can expose sensitive information to hundreds of millions of people. Now imagine these same risks with all your government data, which is run by a small crew of Duji workers without a hint of institutional knowledge between them.

Create data groups talking to each other is one of the most difficult technological challenges there. Anyone had to deport from CRM to another that knows how easy the data loss in this process is. Data centralization is located on the administration agenda – it will likely include helping technology companies. The giants like Palantir have built full business models about integrating government data for monitoring, and they are highly profit from Dog’s dismantling in privacy protection. This is PlayBook: General Breast Infrastructure, Pay private companies millions to rebuild them, then giving these companies unprecedented access to our data.

Dog is also coming to CoBol, a programming language that has been built in the entire infrastructure for the Social Security Administration. According to a report before WirelessDog is planning to rebuild this system from A to Z in only months – even though SSA itself has estimated that such a project would take five years. The difference in these timelines is not due to efficiency or ingenuity; It is the boldness of naivety and neglect. If something happens, more than 65 million people in the United States who are currently receiving social security will feel that it hurts. It can mean any delay in the social security batch, the difference between paying the rent and facing the evacuation, providing medicines or food and going without.

There are a lot of warnings that ring about the actions of this administration, but the damage to the basic technical infrastructure may be one of the effects with the longest tails. Once these systems are destroyed and these protection walls are declined, it may take years or even decades to re -show together from an artistic point of view. Since the administration has resulted in the internal experts who did the important and bilateral work of modernizing government technology, and who will be present to clean chaos?

Last month, she called a 83 -year -old sponsor to care for analgesics to sue this administration due to the overcoming of the Financial Consumer Protection Office, and we can follow its example. Former federal technology workers have knowledge and legal status to challenge these reckless technological initiatives. And ordinary Americans who depend on government services, which we all have, have a share in this battle. Supporting lawyers who unite and document DOGE technology and report any failures they face in government systems, and ask your representatives to hold hearings about what is happening for our digital infrastructure. It may be too late.