Totalitarian regime being setup. We about to be China with a white supremacist/apartheid flavor. Get ready..
Jason Koebler
· Feb 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
A worker resigned in protest rather than giving Thomas Shedd access to Notify.gov, which they said would allow him to see "all personally identifiable information moving through the Notiy system, including phone numbers," 404 Media has learned.
A worker at the General Services Administration told colleagues in a Slack message Tuesday that they have resigned in protest after Elon Musk ally Thomas Shedd requested “admin/root access to all components of the Notify.gov system,” which is a government system used to send mass text messages to the public that contains information the worker said is highly sensitive and would give Shedd unilateral, private access to the personal data of members of the public.
Shedd is a former Tesla engineer who now runs Technology Transformation Services (TTS), a group of coders and software engineers within the GSA, who is closely allied with Elon Musk and DOGE. Notify.gov contains not just the phone numbers of everyday people but also information about whether they participate in government programs such as Medicaid, which is based on a person's financial situation. In recent days, Musk has become obsessed with the idea of "fraud" in Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security, and in identifying those he suspects are committing fraud.
“The TTS commissioner, Thomas Shedd, has required us to provide admin/root access to all components of the Notify.gov system,” the Slack message, seen by 404 Media starts. It then says this would allow Shedd to “view all personally identifiable information (PII) moving through the Notify system, including phone numbers and variable data for members of the public.” It says Shedd “would be able to download and store this data without anybody else receiving a notification.”
“I don’t believe that I can operate a program and system without the ability to manage access to PII,” they added. “As a result, I have submitted my resignation to GSA. Today will be my last day.”
404 Media previously obtained leaked audio from a meeting Shedd had with TTS employees in which he suggested that a tool called login.gov could be turned into an information sharing platform across government agencies that could be used to identify people doing fraud. He also suggested that many government employees could be replaced with “AI coding agents” that would be created by his team.
Notify.gov is a platform that allows government agencies to text people. Examples shown in a demo include, for example, telling someone that their Medicaid coverage is expiring and must be renewed alongside instructions to renew it.
The resignation note. Full text below
Sources at TTS told 404 Media that the fact Shedd wants access to Notify.gov is “scary news.”
“Someone at TTS resigned rather than surrender a vast trove of data to Thomas Shedd,” one employee said. “I’m scared that we’ll run out of people who will tell him no.”
Musk Ally Demands Admin Access to System That Lets Government Text the Public
Musk Ally Demands Admin Access to System That Lets Government Text the Public
Jason Koebler · Feb 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
A worker resigned in protest rather than giving Thomas Shedd access to Notify.gov, which they said would allow him to see "all personally identifiable information moving through the Notiy system, including phone numbers," 404 Media has learned.
A worker at the General Services Administration told colleagues in a Slack message Tuesday that they have resigned in protest after Elon Musk ally Thomas Shedd requested “admin/root access to all components of the Notify.gov system,” which is a government system used to send mass text messages to the public that contains information the worker said is highly sensitive and would give Shedd unilateral, private access to the personal data of members of the public.
Shedd is a former Tesla engineer who now runs Technology Transformation Services (TTS), a group of coders and software engineers within the GSA, who is closely allied with Elon Musk and DOGE. Notify.gov contains not just the phone numbers of everyday people but also information about whether they participate in government programs such as Medicaid, which is based on a person's financial situation. In recent days, Musk has become obsessed with the idea of "fraud" in Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security, and in identifying those he suspects are committing fraud.
“The TTS commissioner, Thomas Shedd, has required us to provide admin/root access to all components of the Notify.gov system,” the Slack message, seen by 404 Media starts. It then says this would allow Shedd to “view all personally identifiable information (PII) moving through the Notify system, including phone numbers and variable data for members of the public.” It says Shedd “would be able to download and store this data without anybody else receiving a notification.”
“I don’t believe that I can operate a program and system without the ability to manage access to PII,” they added. “As a result, I have submitted my resignation to GSA. Today will be my last day.”
404 Media previously obtained leaked audio from a meeting Shedd had with TTS employees in which he suggested that a tool called login.gov could be turned into an information sharing platform across government agencies that could be used to identify people doing fraud. He also suggested that many government employees could be replaced with “AI coding agents” that would be created by his team.
Notify.gov is a platform that allows government agencies to text people. Examples shown in a demo include, for example, telling someone that their Medicaid coverage is expiring and must be renewed alongside instructions to renew it.
The resignation note. Full text belowSources at TTS told 404 Media that the fact Shedd wants access to Notify.gov is “scary news.”
“Someone at TTS resigned rather than surrender a vast trove of data to Thomas Shedd,” one employee said. “I’m scared that we’ll run out of people who will tell him no.”
