UPDATE: The email has disappeared from the inbox of SSA employees who received it, I am told
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In his letter, Borges said he was quitting b/c he could not “verify that agency data is being used in accordance with legal agreements or in compliance with federal requirements.” He also said employees were afraid to speak out internally for "fear of retribution or termination."
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NEW: Social Security’s chief data officer, Charles Borges, has resigned, three days after submitting a whistle-blower complaint that alleged members of DOGE had uploaded the confidential personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to an insecure cloud server.
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