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Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has plans to stage a “hackathon” next week in Washington, DC. The goal is to create a single “mega API”—a bridge that lets software systems talk to one another—for accessing IRS data, sources tell WIRED. The agency is expected to partner with a third-party vendor to manage certain aspects of the data project. Palantir, a software company cofounded by billionaire and Musk associate Peter Thiel.
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-hackathon-irs-data-palantir/
alcamar
Lock down and secure everything you can for yourself; credit reports, financial accounts, etc. We are on the cusp of the largest data leak of PII that could ever be conceived
Bystandr
If recent reports they really arent saving money slashing even institutions like USAID, how are they going to save destroying the IRS? Is it
gilliamv
They want to make it harder for the government to tax and audit the wealthy, while making it easier to blame us poors for all the tax fraud.
Bystandr
even legal to destroy the IRS given the responsibility to the citizen in regards to taxation ? Will this turn adjuication related to
Bystandr
taxation on its side due to misrepresentation ? Lots of questions people are talking about, on this issue, in the USA, here.
Smidge204
Virtually none of what DOGE has done is legal,why start now? Their only mission is to destroy everything.