Trump Wants to Merge Government Data. Here Are 314 Things It Might Know About You.

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/us/politics/trump-musk-data-access.html

Trump Wants to Merge Government Data. Here Are 314 Things It Might Know About You.
Elon Musk’s team is leading an effort to link government databases, to the alarm of privacy and security experts.
By Emily Badger and Sheera Frenkel
April 9, 2025 Updated 11:57 a.m. ET

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These intimate details about the personal lives of people who live in the United States are held in disconnected data systems across the federal government — some at the Treasury, some at the Social Security Administration and some at the Department of Education, among other agencies.

The Trump administration is now trying to connect the dots of that disparate information. Last month, President Trump signed an executive order calling for the “consolidation” of these segregated records, raising the prospect of creating a kind of data trove about Americans that the government has never had before, and that members of the president’s own party have historically opposed.

The effort is being driven by Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, and his lieutenants with the Department of Government Efficiency, who have sought access to dozens of databases as they have swept through agencies across the federal government. Along the way, they have elbowed past the objections of career staff, data security protocols, national security experts and legal privacy protections.

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Personal data held in systems DOGE has sought to access

Academic rank
Active-duty military status
Addiction treatment records
Adjusted gross income
Adopted child’s gender
Adopted child’s name
Adopted child’s placement agency
Adoption credit claimed
Adoption Taxpayer ID Number
Adoptive parent name
Adoptive placement agency
Adoptive placement agency Employer ID Number
Adverse credit history
Alimony paid
Alimony received
Amount of federal taxes owed
Amount of federal taxes refunded
Amount of institutionally provided financing owed
Amount of Medicare conditional payment
Amount of student loan debt
Area of medical residency
Area of study
Auto insurance effective date of coverage
Auto insurance policy number
Automobile medical policies
Bank
Bank information (for your Medicare providers)
Biometric identifiers
Birth certificate
Business address
Business bad debt
Business bank account number
Business closures
Business debts canceled or forgiven
Business depreciation
Business entity type
Business income/loss
Business rents paid
Business repairs and maintenance costs
Business taxpayer ID number
Cancellation of debt
Capital gain/loss
Casualty and theft losses from federal declared disaster
Charitable contributions
Child and dependent care tax credit claimed
Child support received
Children of Fallen Heroes Scholarship eligibility indicator
Citizenship status
Classification of instructional programs code
Clean vehicle credit claimed
Company named in consumer complaint
Consumer product complaints (including mortgages, loans, credit cards)
Cost of goods sold (for business)
Country of birth
Country of citizenship
Course of study completion date
Course of study completion status
Course of study program length
Credit and debit card numbers
Credit report information
Criminal history
Date of accident, injury or illness
Date of birth
Date of death
Date of hiring
Date of original divorce or separation agreement
Dates of employment
Dates of medical service
Deductible part of self-employment tax
Degrees
Delinquency on federal debt status
Dependency status
Dependent names
Dependent of a resident alien
Dependent of U.S. citizen/resident alien
Dependent relationship to you
Dependent Social Security numbers
Dependent/spouse of a nonresident alien holding a U.S. visa
Device ID
Digital assets received as ordinary income
Disability entitlement
Disadvantaged background status
Disbaility status
Dividend income
Driver’s license or state ID number
Earnings
Education and training (for unemployment claims)
Education tax credits claimed
Educator expenses paid
Effective tax rate
Employee benefit plans offered (for business)
Employee ID number
Employer account number
Employer address
Employer name
Employer reported total employees
Employer-provided adoption benefits
Employer-reported total wages paid by quarter
Employment information
Employment status
Employment termination dates
Energy efficient commercial buildings deduction
Energy efficient home improvement credit claimed
Entitlement benefits held by related Social Security number holders
Expected student enrollment
Failure to file taxes penalty
Failure to pay taxes penalty
Family court records
Family size
Farm income/loss
Federal Employer ID Number
Federal housing assistance received
Federal income tax withheld
Financial aid profile
First-time homebuyer credit claimed
Foreign activities
Foreign address
Foreign bank and financial accounts
Foreign business partners
Foreign coverage credits
Foreign earned income exclusion
Foreign interests in business
Foreign tax ID number
Free or reduced-price school lunch received
Full name
Funding arrangements of employer group health plan
Gambling income
Gender
Gross business profit
Gross business receipts or sales
Health insurance claim number
Health insurance effective date of coverage
Health insurance policy number
Health provider name and number
Health savings account deduction claimed
Health supplier name and number
High school
Higher ed institutions designated to receive FAFSA form
Home/mailing address
Home/personal phone number
Homeless status
Hospitalization records
Household employee name
Household employee Social Security number
Household employee wages
Incarcerated student indicator flag
Incarceration status
Income and assets (for student aid eligibility)
Inventions
Investment interest received
IP address
I.R.A. deduction
Job title
Jury duty pay
Late tax filing interest
Level of postsecondary education study
Login security questions and answers
Login.gov password
Marginal tax rate
Marital status
Marriage certificate
Medicaid received
Medicaid waiver payments
Medical and dental expenses paid
Medical claims payments
Medical diagnoses
Medical notes
Medical records number
Medical residency date completed
Medicare invoices (sent to your provider)
Medicare payments received (by your provider)
Military service credits
Mortgage interest paid
Mother’s maiden name
Moving expenses
Name/address of business partnership
Names of other corporate officers of an LLC
Naturalization records
Nature of medical service
Net farm profit/loss
Nonresident alien status
Nonresident alien student, professor or researcher
Nonresident alient student, professor or researcher
Number of agricultural employees employed
Number of employees
Number of family members in college
Occupation title or code
Olympic and Paralympic medals, prize money
Ordinary business income
Parent demographic information
Parent educational attainment
Parent killed in the line of duty
Parental income and assets (for student aid eligibility)
Parents’ demographic information
Passport number
Pell Grant additional eligibility indicator
Pell Grant collection status indicator
Pell Grant status
Personal and professional references (for federal job applicants)
Personal bank account number
Personal bank account routing number
Personal email address
Personal tax payment history
Personal taxpayer ID number
Photographic identifiers
Photographs of government-issued IDs
Physician name and number
Place of birth
Plans for federal grant funding (including schedules, diagrams, pictures)
Postsecondary education institution
Power of attorney name and address
Prescription drug coverage
Principal business activity
Principal business product or service
Prior status as a legally emancipated minor
Prior status as a ward of the court
Prior status as an orphan
Prior status in a legal guardianship
Prior status in foster care
Private health insurer/underwriter group name
Private health insurer/underwriter group number
Private health insurer/underwriter name
Prizes and award income received
Psychological or psychiatric health records
Qualified electric vehicle credit claimed
Railroad retirement credits
Reason for separation (for unemployment claims)
Relationships to other Social Security number holders
Rental management fees paid
Rental, royalty, partnership, etc. income/loss
Rents received
Residential clean energy credit claimed
Royalties received
Salaries and wages earned
Salary history (for federal job applicants)
Scholarship and fellowship grants received
Seasonable employer status
Self-employed health insurance deduction
Self-employment tax
Self-photograph
Sex
Social Security date of filing
Social Security number
Social Security numbers of other corporate officers of an LLC
Social Security primary insurance amount
Social Security/S.S.I. representative payee
Sources and amounts of non-Social Security income
Sources of income
Spousal income and assets (for student aid eligibility)
Spouse demographic information
Spouse of a resident alien
Spouse of U.S. citizen/resident alien
Spouse’s demographic information
Spouse’s Social Security number
Standard employee identifier
State and local taxes paid
Stock options received
Student entitlement
Student load forbearances
Student loan amount
Student loan balances
Student loan cancellations
Student loan claims
Student loan collections
Student loan defaults
Student loan deferments
Student loan disbursement dates
Student loan disbursements
Student loan ID
Student loan interest deduction
Student loan overpayments
Student loan promissory notes
Student loan refunds
Student loan repayment plan
Student loan status
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance received
Supplemental Security Income eligbility
Supplemental Security Income eligibility amount
Supplemental Security Income payment amounts
Tax filing status (married, individual, filing jointly)
Tax preparer tax ID number
Taxable dependent care benefits
Taxable income
Taxable interest income
Taxable I.R.A. distributions
Taxable pension distributions
Taxable Social Security benefits
Taxable state/local refunds
Taxes paid on wagers
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families received
Tests for H.I.V./AIDS
Tip income
Total number of dependents
Total number of tax exemptions
Total payments to all employees
Total tax owed and paid
Type of bank account (checking/savings)
U.S. resident alien status
U.S. visa expiration date
U.S. visa number
Unaccompanied alien child status
Unaccompanied alien children sponsor status
Unemployment compensation received
Vehicle identifiers
Veteran disability determination dates
Veteran status
Visa expiration date
Wages earned while incarcerated
WIC nutrition assistance received
Work email address
Work experience (for federal job applicants)
Work phone number
Workers’ compensation coverage
Workers’ compensation offset

Source: Agency documents assembled by The New York Times

If anything, this list is an undercount. Through his executive orders, Mr. Trump has sought to grant Mr. Musk’s group access to “all unclassified agency records” — a category that leaves out national security secrets but that includes personally sensitive information on virtually everyone in America.

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[intrepidity]

1. Holy Fuckin' Dossier, Batman!

Un.fucking.real. But I knew this was what Elon was after.

Holy fucking shit. Can't wait for those "if you've got nothing to hide...." comments.

[dalton99a]

2. It is the kind of consolidated database fit for dictators and thieves

[intrepidity]

4. And that's putting it mildly.

This is downright diabolical. Full control. Absolute. Game over level.

So glad I'm old and nearly done.

[dweller]

3. Who will think of the children ?!?

Free or reduced-price school lunch received

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WTF ?
Login security questions and answers
Login.gov password


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[dalton99a]

5. +1. Elon needs it - your passwords, biometrics, everything

[LudwigPastorius]

6. I'm just surprised that CODIS isn't included in the list.

To have that expanded into a universal DNA database would be a tyrant’s wet dream.

[intrepidity]

7. There's enough data, that when combined with social media, etc

It *all* will be integrated, either directly or by extrapolation.

This will be a first in history. Just think about it: the "most free" country on earth, where several generations have lived knowing there were protections in place, so we never had to live especially guarded lives (notwithstanding the McCarthy era; and compared to places with either recent or current authoritarian experiences---ie, nearly the whole rest of the world) and *suddenly* and *thoroughly* the safeguards are ripped away---RETROACTIVELY!!

People are not understanding or appreciating how monumental this is imho.