DOGE gearing up for hackathon at IRS, wants easier access to taxpayer data

DOGE gearing up for hackathon at IRS, wants easier access to taxpayer data

IRS worker: “an open door controlled by Musk for all Americans’ most sensitive information.”…

DHS officials request IRS share tax data on up to 7 million illegal immigrants

The two agencies have yet to reach an agreement on how much tax information the IRS is willing to disclose.

With Donald Trump's presidency, the United States Digital Service has undergone a new order with the launch of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). "I want the American people to understand that this is a bullet that destroys, not a scalpel," Merici Vinton, who worked with DOGE for two months, told CNN. She sharply criticized the Trump administration's decisions to lay off some employees.

Countless data held separately by taxpayers should be pooled in the cloud. Palantir may contribute a mega-API.

Weekend 'Hackathon' at the IRS

Next week, DOGE and IRS leadership are expected to host dozens of engineers in DC so they can begin "ripping up the old systems" and building the API, an IRS engineering source tells WIRED. The goal is to have this task completed within 30 days. Sources say there have been multiple discussions about involving third-party cloud and software providers like Palantir in the implementation.Initiating a plan like this would likely touch all data withi…

The "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE), led by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, aims, according to a media report in K rze, to carry out a "hackathon" in which one wants to create a "mega API" to process data from the US tax payers. (Read more)