DOGE Seeks Access To Govt-To-Public Mass Texting

404 Media reports:

A worker at the General Services Administration told colleagues in a Slack message Tuesday that they have resigned in protest after Elon Musk ally Thomas Shedd requested “admin/root access to all components of the Notify.gov system,” which is a government system used to send mass text messages to the public that contains information the worker said is highly sensitive and would give Shedd unilateral, private access to the personal data of members of the public.

Shedd is a former Tesla engineer who now runs Technology Transformation Services (TTS), a group of coders and software engineers within the GSA. Notify.gov contains not just the phone numbers of everyday people but also information about whether they participate in government programs such as Medicaid. In recent days, Musk has become obsessed with the idea of “fraud” in Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security, and in identifying those he suspects are committing fraud.

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Musk Ally Demands Admin Access to System That Lets Government Text the Public

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