The United States Government Efficiency Department (Doge), led by billionaire Elon Musk, is pressing to access personal personal information of millions of Americans, US media revealed on Monday.
According to this information, this department is related to getting access to a system linked to the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) -Uu. -Similar to the Treasury in other countries – to allegedly eradicate fraud operations.
“The measure has made the agency’s employees and privacy experts, who warn that granting political agents access such private information could be really dangerous,” details the ABC News medium.
Specifically, it is the known as Integrated Data Recovery System (IDRS), from which IRS employees can review tax information from taxpayers, update their records and transfer notices.
Among the personal data listed on this platform, the social security number – fundamental in the US are for any bureaucratic management – and the address of a person, as well as details about how much earns or how much money owes.
Despite Doge’s anence to access this system, the White House has not specified how it would use it to detect and penalize fraud in the event that it had permission to do so.
In fact, with operations such as this Doge there is great suspicion in part of the American society that they can be used to attack for political reasons critical voices with the Trump administration.
And Musk has previously charged against federal judges for stopping their power and has requested its dismissal. In addition, he has also assured without evidence or examples of irregularities that federal workers were defrauding taxpayers.
According to a regulation of the IRS, anyone who access the IDRs is not allowed specifically to review the personal fiscal information of family, friends, neighbors or celebrities.
A federal judge already blocked weeks ago the Doge access to the Payment System of the US Treasury Department after a lawsuit signed by the general prosecutors of 19 states against the decision of the Department led by Musk.
