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Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>I find this extremely unacceptable and outrageous. How does a billionaire that receives hundreds of millions from U.S. taxpayers gets to snoop into the private lives of hundreds of millions of those same taxpayers? This is plain BANANA REPUBLIC territory! </p><p>"The Department of Health and Human Services has granted associates of the U.S. DOGE Service access to a sensitive child support database with troves of income data, overriding the objections of career employees, according to four people familiar with the matter.</p><p>The government database — created to help enforce child support payments and overseen by the Administration for Children and Families, or ACF — contains substantial amounts of personal income data linked to nearly all U.S. workers. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.</p><p>An HHS official confirmed that DOGE received access to the system, saying that DOGE’s agents sought “read-only access” to the system and were required “to take all necessary trainings” before being granted permission to use it.</p><p>“ACF supports DOGE’s efforts to improve efficiency and data quality to reduce waste, fraud, and abuse in federal programs,” the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal operations, wrote in an email. “ACF will continue to assist DOGE in efforts to strengthen the programs it runs.”"</p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/08/hhs-doge-child-support/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/business/20</span><span class="invisible">25/03/08/hhs-doge-child-support/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ChildSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChildSupport</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DataProtection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataProtection</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The govt database—created to help enforce <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChildSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChildSupport</span></a> payments &amp; overseen by the Admin for Children &amp; Families, or <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ACF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ACF</span></a> —contains substantial amounts of personal income data linked to nearly ALL US workers [not just govt workers].<br>
An <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HHS</span></a> ofcl confirmed <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> received access, saying that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a>’s agents sought “read-only access” to the system &amp; were required “to take all necessary trainings”(ಠ⁔↼) before being granted permission to use it.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Gestapo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gestapo</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpReich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpReich</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>This is so much worse than <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s 1st term</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HHS</span></a> grants <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> access to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChildSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChildSupport</span></a> database, overriding objections<br>
An HHS ofcl said the associates of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a>’s group had sought ‘read-only’ access [that’s plenty].

The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a>’s HHS has granted associates of the US DOGE Service access to a sensitive child support database w/troves of income data [for all Americans not just <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a>], overriding objections of career employees.
<br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Gestapo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gestapo</span></a><br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/08/hhs-doge-child-support/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/business/20</span><span class="invisible">25/03/08/hhs-doge-child-support/</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Earlier this week, however, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> associates targeted what several experts &amp; government officials described as perhaps the most sensitive of all — a system within a broader govt database created to help enforce <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChildSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChildSupport</span></a> payments, which pulls a vast trove of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/information" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>information</span></a>, including income data linked to nearly ALL US WORKERS [not just those working for the Federal Govt].</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpCoup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpCoup</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpPurge</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MafiaState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MafiaState</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> has sought access to a powerful database of nearly all US workers’ earnings kept by the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> dept’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChildSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChildSupport</span></a> office, setting off another disagreement w/career staff over demands for legally <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/protected" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protected</span></a> records, acc/to 4 people familiar w/the matter.<br>
Over the last several weeks, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/billionaire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>billionaire</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a>’s team has clashed w/ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilServants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilServants</span></a> over attempts to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/access" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>access</span></a> privileged <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/information" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>information</span></a> or systems kept by the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Treasury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Treasury</span></a> Dept, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/IRS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IRS</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialSecurity</span></a>, among other agencies.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>JFC</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> targets <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChildSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChildSupport</span></a> database full of private income data<br>
Associates of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a>’s group provoked yet another clash with career <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilServants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilServants</span></a> over sensitive government records</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpCoup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpCoup</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpPurge</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MafiaState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MafiaState</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tyranny</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/broligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>broligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/plutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plutocracy</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/06/doge-hhs-ssa-data/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/business/20</span><span class="invisible">25/03/06/doge-hhs-ssa-data/</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"In October 2021, we sent a freedom-of-information request to the Social Insurance Agency attempting to find out more. It immediately rejected our request. Over the next three years, we exchanged hundreds of emails and sent dozens of freedom-of-information requests, nearly all of which were rejected. We went to court, twice, and spoke to half a dozen public authorities.</p><p>Lighthouse Reports and Svenska Dagbladet obtained an unpublished dataset containing thousands of applicants to Sweden’s temporary child support scheme, which supports parents taking care of sick children. Each of them had been flagged as suspicious by a predictive algorithm deployed by the Social Insurance Agency. Analysis of the dataset revealed that the agency’s fraud prediction algorithm discriminated against women, migrants, low-income earners and people without a university education.</p><p>Months of reporting — including conversations with confidential sources — demonstrate how the agency has deployed these systems without scrutiny despite objections from regulatory authorities and even its own data protection officer."</p><p><a href="https://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/swedens-suspicion-machine/?utm_source=pocket_shared" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">lighthousereports.com/investig</span><span class="invisible">ation/swedens-suspicion-machine/?utm_source=pocket_shared</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Sweden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sweden</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SocialInsurance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialInsurance</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ChildSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChildSupport</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Algorithms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Algorithms</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AlgorithmicDiscrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlgorithmicDiscrimination</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AlgorithmicBias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlgorithmicBias</span></a></p>
Kyozou<p>Has anyone told these idiots that the last time abortion was illegal in this country there was no such thing as a DNA test to prove paternity?</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/WomensRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensRights</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/abortion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abortion</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>project2025</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/childsupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>childsupport</span></a></p>
Bob Jamieson<p>Sex tourism is big business in the Philippines. But the consequences are long-term. Foreign men – including from Australia and New Zealand – are estimated to have fathered tens of thousands of children to local sex workers. Now, a trailblazing Australian-led project, is using DNA samples from these children to track down their sex-tourist fathers and demand child support.</p><p><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-08/dna-helps-children-track-down-sex-tourist-fathers/104069808" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/news/2024-07-08/dna</span><span class="invisible">-helps-children-track-down-sex-tourist-fathers/104069808</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SexTourism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SexTourism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/DNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DNA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ChildSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChildSupport</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/karma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>karma</span></a></p>
We Can Be Gyros<p>World's almost richest man who claims he should impregnate lots and lots of women for some future he wants, refuses to pay his <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ChildSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChildSupport</span></a> fairly. So maybe <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> is not interested in what's best for the Kids.<br><a href="https://jalopnik.com/worlds-richest-man-elon-musk-is-fighting-to-avoid-child-1851082868?utm_medium=sharefromsite&amp;utm_source=jalopnik_twitter" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jalopnik.com/worlds-richest-ma</span><span class="invisible">n-elon-musk-is-fighting-to-avoid-child-1851082868?utm_medium=sharefromsite&amp;utm_source=jalopnik_twitter</span></a></p>