DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data

Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨BrikoX@lemmy.zip⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.zip⁩

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-hackathon-irs-data-palantir/

DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED.

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CaptainBasculin@lemmy.bascul.in ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
30 days to write an API for a dataset that involves all American citizens’s tax records?

yep, I can see nothing going wrong whatsoever.

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- jonne@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yeah, and you build an MVP in a hackathon, not something that needs to be relied on by a whole country. I hate these people.
  
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- Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  of course they are using THIELS palintir.
  
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- adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  thirty days? sounds more like how long it will take to swipe all the data.
  
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jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Corcos has discussed plans for DOGE to build “one new API to rule them all,” making IRS data more easily accessible for cloud platforms,

Oh my god

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jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

He has also spoken about some aspects of these cuts publicly: “We’ve so far stopped work and cut about $1.5 billion from the modernization budget…”

Thanks. Because one the taxpayers liked about the IRS was how not-modern they are.

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jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Hackathon? Is that what they call breaking and entering these days?

DOGE is the Trump plumbers.

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