These Are the 10 DOGE Operatives Inside the Social Security Administration

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The team working at the Social Security Administration appears to be among the largest DOGE units deployed to any government agency.

Farritor, a 23-year-old former Thiel Fellow and Space X intern who helped to recruit other young engineers to join DOGE on a Discord group for SpaceX interns, has also appeared internally at GSA, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Department of Energy, and Department of Education.

Individuals having access to the records of multiple agencies is highly unusual and problematic, experts say.“Federal law places strict controls on personal data held by agencies, including limits on cross-agency transfers and rigorous training requirements for personnel who have a legitimate need for access,” says John Davisson, the director of litigation at the Electronic Privacy Information Center.“Ignoring those safeguards and haphazardly putting systems at multiple agencies under the thumb of a single engineer obliterates those protections.