Other than outright grift and corruption, it’s hard to think of a single reason why the six conservative justices of the U.S. Supreme Court opened the door for inexperienced DOGE workers to snoop into every American’s private data.
Friday’s ruling means that Elon Musk’s guys will get all our Social Security numbers, medical records, and tax and banking information, according to NBC News.
MSNBC host Jen Psaki rightly called it “a huge freaking deal” because “Social Security numbers are the key to accessing just about every facet of life in America.”
First, there’s the matter of who will have access to the data. We all know Elon Musk’s DOGE operation was chaotic, unprofessional and horribly executed. Not surprisingly, the DOGE bros who now have access to our most sensitive data are just as disturbing.
Exhibit A: Marko Elez. You may recall that he’s a DOGE staffer who had previously tweeted, among other things, “I was racist before it was cool” and “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity.” Elez resigned in February but was soon rehired by the Trump administration. “In March, WIRED reported that he was one of the DOGE operatives working inside the Social Security Administration,” Psaki said.
