> The Privacy Act of 1974 generally, and the Internal Revenue
Code with respect to taxpayer information, make it unlawful for Secretary Bessent to
hand over access to the Bureau’s records on individuals to Elon Musk or other
members of DOGE.
If I’m not mistaken they just may have received authorization from the President. Could be, I don’t know.
Not that that is sufficient for allowing legal access to all data in every case. But see the next part.
There’s no evidence that the wild claims about improper access to data are justified. Claims from people who have proven to be the opposite of truthful. For instance to shut down payments temporarily you don’t need to access data; you just need a cable snipper to cut the right wires. Reference the Twitter Sacramento data center solution implemented after the Twitter purchase. Or it can be done any number of other ways with changing passwords, etc.
> Claims from people who have proven to be the opposite of truthful.
Interesting you say that.
All I know is that confidential payment data is apparently being handed to specific individual(s?), known to be partisan actors, who lost a bunch of lawsuits in court of law recently. Am I to just ignore that?
The point is not to shut payments, but to use it in information warfare, Twitter Files Redux.
