The Drey Dossier: “…Login.gov is open source, which means the government publishes its code in the open for anyone to read, so I read it, and I walked the recent changes, since every edit gets posted in public with a date stamped on it. Over the last couple of months somebody added a new piece and named it a proofing agent. Proofing is just the bureaucratic word for proving you are who you say you are, so a proofing agent is a stand-in that does the proving for you. What it actually does, according to the code, is let an approved outside organization hand login.gov your name, your Social Security number, your date of birth, your address, even your passport, and login.gov will run the full identity check on that pile of data and, if it all lines up, stamp you verified. You come out the far side a confirmed, government-trusted person, and you were never anywhere near it. So the single promise the whole system was built on, that it has to actually be you, is gone, traded for an approved organization that can conjure a verified you out of a spreadsheet. Of everything in this piece, that is the part that scares me most. And it appeared in the code right after a particular man arrived to run the place…” [Note – Login.gov – “The public’s one account for government. Use one account and password for secure, private access to participating government agencies” – this site is required to access services including Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Your personal identifying data has been compromised multiple times using portals such as these, with increased security breeches due to the DOGE project [Elon Musk] as well as other billionaire controlled government contracts awarded during this administration.]

See also Notes from the Circus: “…Trump installs DOGE personnel inside the Treasury payment system, the IRS database, the Social Security records, the security clearances database, in violation of the Privacy Act and a stack of other statutes. Some plaintiffs have managed to establish standing in some of these cases, after extended litigation. In many of the cases, plaintiffs have been dismissed on standing grounds. Where plaintiffs have survived, the merits proceed slowly while the data continues to be accessed…”