The Privacy Act of 1974, governing the collection, maintenance, use, and dissemination of personal information by federal agencies. Incidents involve violations of Privacy Act protections, particularly through unauthorized data access by DOGE personnel.
DOGE accessed Treasury, OPM, and SSA databases containing millions of Americans' personal data without authorization or completed background checks. Federal judges ordered data disgorged and deleted, …
DOGE staff were granted access to Treasury's central payment system (handling trillions in tax refunds, Social Security benefits, and …
A federal judge found DOGE staffers were given access before background checks were completed or inter-agency detail agreements were …
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Updated March 26, 2026Corruption & Self-Dealing
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DOGE associates including Tom Krause (Broadcom executive) and Marko Elez (25-year-old with racist posts) accessed Treasury's $6 trillion payment system. Elez was mistakenly given write access to …
DOGE associates were granted access to the Treasury's Bureau of the Fiscal Service, which processes over $6 trillion in annual payments …
Tom Krause, former Broadcom CFO and current CEO of Cloud Service Group, was made an unpaid 'senior advisor for technology and modernization' …