Elon Musk Department of Government Efficiency Gained access to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, which contains confidential personal information about hundreds of thousands of alleged victims of housing discrimination, including victims of domestic violence.
Access to the system called HUD control system, or HEMS, is usually strictly limited because it contains medical documents, financial files, documents that can list social security numbers and other private information. The dog has achieved access, and HUD provided it last week, according to propublica information and two officials acquaintance with this issue.
This is just the last collection of sensitive personal information to which DOGE has tried to access in recent weeks. He also addressed the data on personal taxpayers stored by the IRS and information about the recipients of social insurance, and he tried to enter the Ministry of Finance’s payment systems. The stated DEGE mission is to modernize government technology and reduce excessive or incorrect costs. Presidential Administration Donald Trump claimed that The dog needs “direct access” to such systems to eliminate “waste, fraud and abuse”.
Dog data collection in some agencies caused a strong refusal, including trial over allegedly Violations of privacy and counteraction to careers who have fell or retired Following access requests. Judges temporarily blocked DOGE out of access to records in the Education Department, Management Management and Ministry of Finance. And, confronted with resistance, doge agreed to view Only anonymous taxpayers’ data in the IRS.
Few HUD recordings are edited or aligned, and many contain deeply personal materials about those who were allegedly or accused of housing discrimination. Family violence cases can list addresses that the survivors have moved to their safety. Cases of persecution may include detailed descriptions of sexual attacks. Disability cases may include a detailed medical card. Credit discrimination files can be submitted by credit reports and bank statements. The names of the witnesses that offered the information – in some cases anonymous – about the landlords accused of discrimination are among the files.
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HUD complies with numerous civil rights laws, including the law on fair housing and aspects of the law on women’s violence and the Law on Americans with disabilities. Such statutes collectively prohibit housing discrimination based on race, gender, national origin, disability and other characteristics.
HUD representatives who have made anonymity, fearing revenge, expressed concern that Dage access to HEMS could violate the privacy of victims of discrimination and potentially expose their risk if their information is incorrect or leaning.
Episode – One of many wild HUD where Trump administration As reportedly, the question is being considered 50% decreased to almost 10,000 people. In the office of fair housing and equal opportunities fighting housing discrimination, approximately 500 people who are reduced by 76%can see, reports an unconfirmed projection that is widely distributed among HUD employees and is viewed by PPUBLICA.
Proponents of civil liberties expressed concern about the access of Dogel HUD, saying it could violate the privacy law. “It is difficult to understand why the system, dedicated to the complaints about civil rights, will have some influence on the department seeking the ineffectiveness of state expenses,” said Cody Wenzke, a senior political lawyer of the US Union of Civil Liberties.
Wenzke offered DOGE can use HEMS data as a basis for scaling housing discrimination. “There is a deep concern that Dogeg is not to identify the ineffectiveness of the government, but rather for the shutter with which the administration disagrees,” he said.
John Davisson, Director of Judicial Disabilities at the Electronic Privacy Center, which sues Doge and other federal agencies and officials for Dage access, claimed that the Department gained access to HEMS and systems as “,” under false affiliations of fraud and abuse . If what’s going really is a doge, trying to get control of these databases, to direct the activities of federal agencies. “
The HUD Press Socialist, the White House and Dodge did not respond to a comment request (including the question to convey what he plans to do with HEMS).
The HUD Just Hud’s Fair Housing Service receives tens of thousands of housing discrimination or requests annually and is being investigated – either by state or local agencies – about 8,000 of them each year. These investigations can last months or years and lead to financial settlements, monitoring and reforms by landlords, mortgage lenders, local officials and owners of homes.
Access to HEMS is usually limited to fair housing, HUD lawyers and auditors, as well as state and local investigators. However, Dodge demanded to enter, and HUD last week provided access only to Michael Mirsk reading, which has an HUD email address and which officials in the housing agency identified internal discussions as doge. Mirski did not respond to a comment request.
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