Former Social Security whistleblower felt it was his “responsibility” to protect Americans’ info
This excerpt features Government Accountability Project whistleblower client, Charles Borges, and was originally published here.
“A whistleblower who warned our Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE that they were putting American social security data at risk is speaking out. Chuck Borges involuntarily resigned as the Social Security Administration’s Chief Data Officer in August. He said the agency took actions against him and made it impossible to do his job. Today, a new profile of Borges’ details his experiences as Elon Musk’s DOGE staffers disrupted the agency, ‘I cannot count how many employees I saw cry, and that is at all levels of the agency, from executives downward.'”
“Borges: ‘When I made my initial disclosure, I raised concerns that that specific data had been copied to a cloud environment, and again the independent security controls around it had been bypassed. The information that I received in my investigation seemed to corroborate that…. It’s the most important data set that social security maintains and if it were to be accidentally leaked or breached, the results would be catastrophic.
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