DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data

[UpInArms]

Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has plans to stage a “hackathon” next week in Washington, DC. The goal is to create a single “mega API”—a bridge that lets software systems talk to one another—for accessing IRS data, sources tell WIRED. The agency is expected to partner with a third-party vendor to manage certain aspects of the data project. Palantir, a software company cofounded by billionaire and Musk associate Peter Thiel, has been brought up consistently by DOGE representatives as a possible candidate, sources tell WIRED.

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A “mega API” could potentially allow someone with access to export all IRS data to the systems of their choosing, including private entities. If that person also had access to other interoperable datasets at separate government agencies, they could compare them against IRS data for their own purposes.

“Schematizing this data and understanding it would take years,” an IRS source tells WIRED. “Just even thinking through the data would take a long time, because these people have no experience, not only in government, but in the IRS or with taxes or anything else.” (“There is a lot of stuff that I don't know that I am learning now,” Corcos tells Ingraham in the Fox interview. “I know a lot about software systems, that's why I was brought in.&quot

These systems have all gone through a tedious approval process to ensure the security of taxpayer data. Whatever may replace them would likely still need to be properly vetted, sources tell WIRED.
"It's basically an open door controlled by Musk for all American's most sensitive information with none of the rules that normally secure that data," an IRS worker alleges to WIRED.
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Disaster is a hair’s breath away

[Tadpole Raisin]

1. Does a lawsuit have to be filed with every little thing he tries to do?

Does a judge have to put a TRO only after he does the damage?

For some reason I thought a judge stopped him from accessing data he had no right to see without good reason although how would we ever know they complied unless (beyond the incrementally timid order) the judge placed armed guards at the entrance of every agency.

I mean JHC they’ve even gone in places that were not federal agencies like they own it all.

Well yes they do think they own it all…

[yellow dahlia]

3. There are lawsuits about invasion of privacy, and yet they continue to pillage our data. n/t