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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Joseph Gedeon in Washington

Doge improperly shared sensitive social security data, DoJ court filing reveals

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Elon Musk speaks in the Oval Office on 30 May 2025. Photograph: Shutterstock

After months of denials, the Trump administration has acknowledged in a federal court filing that employees working for Elon Musk’s supposed cost-cutting operation accessed and improperly shared Americans’ sensitive social security data.

The justice department court filing, submitted on Friday in an ongoing lawsuit, reveals that a member of the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) signed a secret data-sharing agreement with an unidentified political advocacy group whose stated aim was to find evidence of voter fraud and overturn election results in certain states.

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