Forbes

How Data Is Breaking Barriers In Healthcare Access

Millions in the U.S. lack access to healthcare. Each year, 3.6 million U.S. adults don't get medical care because of transportation issues, and others delay or don't pursue care due to cost. Still ...
Wired

ICE Is Getting Unprecedented Access to Medicaid Data

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are getting access to the personal data of nearly 80 million people on Medicaid in order to acquire "information concerning the identification and ...
NPR

The government already knows a lot about you. DOGE is trying to access all of it

Elon Musk's team within the Trump administration has sought sweeping access to databases that store personal information on millions and millions of Americans. The data collected and maintained by the ...
NPR

DOGE says it needs to know the government's most sensitive data, but can't say why

Fewer than 50 people have access to Social Security Administration databases containing hundreds of millions of people's private financial and personal information. But only one also has access to the ...
Inside Higher Ed

Is DOGE Digging Around in Student Data?

Just last month, Lorena Tule-Romain was encouraging families with mixed citizenship statuses to fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. She and her staff at ImmSchools, a nonprofit ...
ABC News

Elon Musk's DOGE asks for access to IRS taxpayer data, sources say

If granted, DOGE would have personal financial details on millions of Americans. Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency is pushing for access to an Internal Revenue Service system that ...
Wired

Here’s All the Health and Human Services Data DOGE Has Access To

Affiliates from Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have significant access to 19 sensitive systems at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), according to a ...