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DOGE Staffer Broke Treasury Rules Transmitting Personal Data

Posted on March 17, 2025 by Dissent

Gregory Korte and Erik Larson report: A staffer for the Department of Government Efficiency violated Treasury Department policies when he sent a spreadsheet containing personal information to two other people in the Trump administration, a federal official revealed in a court filing Friday. That DOGE staffer was Marko Elez, who left his job tracking Treasury…

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Takeaways from our investigation on AI-powered school surveillance

Posted on March 12, 2025 by Dissent

Sharon Lurye of The Associated Press and Claire Bryan of The Seattle Times report: Thousands of American schools are turning to AI-powered surveillance technology for 24/7 monitoring of student accounts and school-issued devices like laptops and tablets. The goal is to keep children safe, especially amid a mental health crisis and the threat of school shootings. Machine-learning algorithms detect potential indicators of problems…

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No need to hack when it’s leaking, Monday edition: TeammateApp

Posted on February 24, 2025February 24, 2025 by Dissent

Another day, another leak, another inaccurate claim by an entity, and another inappropriate attack on a researcher. Buckle up. TeammateApp is not the sort of entity that DataBreaches usually reports on. DataBreaches decided to report on a data leak they reportedly experienced because once again, a well-intended researcher appears to have been falsely accused of…

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Hundreds of Dutch medical records bought for pocket change at flea market

Posted on February 19, 2025 by Dissent

It’s been a while since DataBreaches posted a story about unerased drives with tons of sensitive information being purchased at a flea market or auction, but here we are again, and this time in the Netherlands. Connor Jones reports: Robert Polet, a 62-year-old techie and apparent bargain hunter from Breda, a city in the southern…

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Elon Musk’s DOGE Posts Classified Data On Its New Website

Posted on February 15, 2025 by Dissent

Jennifer Bendery reports: Elon Musk’s team at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency has posted classified information about the size and staff of a U.S. intelligence agency on its new website, raising bigger concerns about where Musk’s programmers got this information and what they are doing with it. DOGE, which President Donald Trump created to…

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No need to hack when it’s leaking: ZAR clinics edition

Posted on January 30, 2025 by Dissent

Heise.de reports: A massive data leak potentially affects hundreds of thousands of patients at ZAR rehab clinics across Germany. Among other things, highly sensitive medical reports were accessible. The affected rehab centers are under the umbrella of Nanz medico, which claims to be the largest provider of outpatient rehab services in Germany. This includes a…

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