In late February furloughed staff at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) were invited back to their offices in 15-minute windows to collect their belongings.They walked out, some in tears, carrying boxes of personal items — but many were also worried about the personal information they were leaving behind in the USAID office systems.
The specific concern was over the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the bureaucracy-slashing group created by the Trump administration. No one knows exactly what personal data the group has grabbed.
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The dangerous part of all this, says David Karpf, an associate professor at George Washington University whose work focuses on strategic communication and internet-related strategies, is that DOGE may have accessed Social Security numbers and other information that is supposed to be protected.
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