Titled: Supremes Give Green Light to Doge: the Deep Dive on Sensitive Citizen Data Access
Supreme Court Grants Access to Confidential Citizen Data for Doge
In a jaw-dropping move, the much-discussed war between the spend-slashing entity, Doge, and the Social Security Administration (SSA) took a dramatic turn. The Supreme Court, with a majority of conservative justices, has given the initial thumbs up for Doge employees to waltz into the private data realm of SSA citizens - yep, you guessed it, those sheets brimming with crucial info like Social Security numbers, birthdates, account numbers, addresses, and more sensitive data.
This Supreme Court decision was served despite a lower court's injunction on data access, slamming Doge for gaining access to millions of American's personal and private data under questionable pretexts. The government justified data access as essential to combat fraud and reduce wasteful spending.
The battle rages on, but in the meantime, the Doge team can already party like it's their birthday with these juicy data tidbits. Two dissenting justices, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor, raised their fingers in protest, concerned about this covert dance with Americans' privacy at stake.
Let's take a trip down Memory Lane to see how we landed here. In the lower court, Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander put a stop to this SS-Doge data rendezvous, stating that Doge's data access request was oversized, to say the least, and would breach federal privacy laws.
Never one to back down, the government thundered forward with another case against a group of complainants who felt that the tongue-wagging Doge team should spill the beans on certain info just like government agencies do. The conservative judges decided to twist the verdict once again, overturning the lower court decision that had demanded internal emails and more from Doge to hopeful transparency crusaders.
Now buckle up, friends, because this is where things get interesting. The plaintiffs claimed they deserved to be privy to Doge's secrets, whether those were internal emails or not. The government replied with their signature trump card, asserting that Doge isn't an agency, but rather a presidential advisor. This mud-slinging squabble will now be settled in an appellate court.
The drama between the SSA and the Doge publicity-grabbing squad began in May 2025, following orders from then-President Trump to slash government spending. Elon Musk jumped on board to pilote the restructuring of the government with the Doge crew under his wing. After his cosmic conquests, Musk returned to his home turf - the tech scene - but the Doge team remains a fierce force in the government.
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- The Supreme Court's decision in favor of Doge's access to sensitive citizen data has sparked conversations about the role of technology in community policy, with concerns being raised over privacy in the midst of government politics.
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