Elon Musk May Have Your Social Security Number
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The billionaire and his DOGE agents were reportedly granted full access to the Treasury’s federal payments system, and nobody knows to what end.

Summary

Elon Musk and his “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) have been granted access to the U.S. Treasury’s federal payment system, raising concerns about security and misuse.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent approved the move after a top Treasury official was ousted for resisting.

Critics warn Musk could freeze payments to government programs or manipulate federal contracts.

The move coincides with DOGE’s takeover of the Office of Personnel Management.

Experts call it a dangerous power grab, as Musk holds no official government position.

    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
      94·
      16 hours ago

      What indicates that it’s only about Americans

      Aside from the headline, the very first sentence of the article.

      The world’s richest man may now have access to the confidential personal information of every taxpayer in the United States

      But we both know you’re just playing dumb and you obviously knew it from the headline, because you obviously didn’t bother to read the article.

      And of course there’s the article summary in the body of the post that’s blatantly about the US.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      63·
      16 hours ago

      c/news is generally for American news. c/worldnews is for everything else.

      Yes, I know you don’t like that.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          64·
          15 hours ago

          See above, re: I know you don’t like that.

          You have, as far as I can see it, three options: find your own server and make your own news community, accept that this is how it is and you have no way to change it even if you don’t like it, or whine about it.

          You are choosing the third option for some reason. I’m not sure why.

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
              4·
              15 hours ago

              It’s because someone complains about how this community is U.S.-centric every week. It gets exhausting to see constantly. Everyone’s aware that it is catering to American biases. It’s like how people are constantly announcing that something in Microblog Memes isn’t a meme. You see it constantly and it starts to grate on you.

              I am sorry to have made it personal. That was wrong of me.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      44·
      16 hours ago

      We’re in a general news community on Lemmy.world.

      You probably want !world@lemmy.world.

      Back on Reddit, /r/news basically became about US news – I mean, it wasn’t a restriction to only be US, but it was just overwhelmed by US news – and so /r/worldnews was created in response, so that there was a subreddit that explicitly excluded US-specific news, so that it wouldn’t get flooded by it. !news@lemmy.world and !world@lemmy.world kinda parallels that relationship.