Elon Musk May Have Your Social Security Number
nymag.com
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.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          31·
          12 hours ago

          Yes I’m bitter, and no my jokes aren’t funny but I don’t care.

          Congratulations, you are ready to start a career in stand-up comedy!

          (The former was why I quit doing standup, a lot of them never stop being bitter.)

        • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
          510·
          14 hours ago

          Well, your in a topic thats clearly only about Americans, and you felt the need to yell “im not American this doesn’t affect me”, as if anyone cares.

          No one cares if you’re not american. The topic doesn’t affect you by default.

            • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
              94·
              14 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·
              14 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·
                  13 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.

            • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
              44·
              14 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.

                • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
                  32·
                  13 hours ago

                  If you think the US is going to annex Canada, you truly are a moron. I can only imagine the type of work you do. You can’t read, so that’s probably a problem for you first off.