Julie Webgirl @juliewebgirl@mstdn.social
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Bruce Schneier testified at a hearing yesterday titled "The Federal Government in the Age of Artificial Intelligence"

"You all need to assume that our adversaries have copies of *all the data* DOGE has exfiltrated and have established access into *all the networks* that DOGE has removed security controls from.

And your data can be used against you..."

Written testimony:
oversight.house.gov/wp-content

Video of the hearing:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=wKkk-uWi

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Written Expert Testimony to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Hearing titled “The Federal Government in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” Bruce Schneier Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer Harvard Kennedy School June 4, 2025 Data security breaches present significant dangers to everyone in the United States, from private citizens to corporations to government agencies to elected officials. Over the past four months, DOGE’s approach to data access has massively exacerbated the risk. DOGE employees have accessed and exfiltrated data from a variety of government agencies in order to, in part, train AI systems. Their actions have weakened security within the federal government by bypassing and disabling critical security measures, exporting sensitive data to environments with less security, and consolidating disparate data streams to create a massively attractive target for any adversary. Data consolidation might seem harmless or even positive, but we have to understand what’s at stake when our data gets consolidated. Data is power. Any entity, whether public or private, that holds data about individuals has some ability to understand, predict, and manipulate their behavior. For example, major tech companies use people’s individual data to deliver advertising that shapes what we buy and even what we believe...
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