NPR

The Trump administration is building a national citizenship data system

The Trump administration has, for the first time ever, built a searchable national citizenship data system. The tool, which is being rolled out in phases, is designed to be used by state and local ...
USA Today

DOGE put Social Security data of millions of Americans at risk, whistleblower says

WASHINGTON ― Personal information of more than 300 million Americans is at risk of being leaked or hacked after employees of the Department of Government Efficiency uploaded a sensitive Social ...
The New York Times

DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says

DOGE team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to a vulnerable cloud server, according to the agency’s chief data officer. By Nicholas Nehamas ...
CBS News

Elon Musk, DOGE use access to Social Security data to elevate claims against migrants

Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency say they're using their access to the Social Security Administration data not only to investigate claims of waste and fraud, but also to examine ...
Wired

DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants

Operatives from Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are building a master database at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that could track and surveil undocumented ...
NPR

Whistleblower says Trump officials copied millions of Social Security numbers

A whistleblower says that a former senior DOGE official now at the Social Security Administration copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private ...
Los Angeles Times

Trump’s TikTok security plan labeled rehashed version of rejected ‘Project Texas’

President Trump’s plan to save TikTok for Americans casts Oracle Corp. as the security guard for U.S. user data and the app’s all-important algorithm. “Oracle is playing a very big part. Oracle really ...
Business Insider

Scale AI exposed sensitive data about clients like Meta and xAI in public Google Docs, BI finds

Scale AI routinely uses public Google Docs for work with Google, Meta, and xAI. BI reviewed thousands of files — some marked confidential, others exposing contractor data. Scale AI says it's ...
The Manila Times

Projectmates Completes SOC 2 Examination, Strengthening Security Assurance for Owners

The SOC 2 examination evaluated the design and operating effectiveness of controls within Projectmates’ Construction ...
The Marshall Project

ICE Raids Kept On During the Shutdown, But the Detention Data Stayed Hidden

This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Sign up for future newsletters. Like previous ...
AZ Central

Amazon's planned data center won't be cooled with as much water. Here's what it will use

An Amazon data center project in Pima County is moving forward with a closed-loop cooling system that requires less water, reallocating power from computing to cooling. The project's initial phase is ...
Time

Millions of Americans’ Social Security Data Put at Risk by DOGE, a Whistleblower Says. Here’s What to Know

The seal of the Social Security Administration outside the agency's headquarters in Woodlawn, Maryland, on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. The seal of the Social Security Administration outside the agency's ...