Charles Borges, then chief data officer for the vast Social Security Administration, was alarmed this past summer when he learned that members of Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service had copied a mainframe database containing the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans, including names, birthdays, addresses and more.
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