Musk Flips Privacy Script for DOGE With Doxxing Complaints (1)

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, accused of unprecedented violations of privacy laws by accessing Americans’ most sensitive personal data, is claiming the public disclosure of its employees’ identities is the illegal invasion of privacy.

Musk and some supporters of the group’s mission took to social media to argue that oversight and media reporting about DOGE employees elevates to doxxing: the practice of disclosing an individual’s personally identifying information online without their consent. A clinical instructor at Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic, for example, published the names and emails of more than 30 DOGE employees in a post on Bluesky ...