Wired [detailed] an effort at DOGE to fold[the SSA]
    database into the DHS [database]

    Specifically, mass amounts of personal data harvested
    from the IRS, SSA

    voting records in Pennsylvania and Florida were recently
    uploaded into servers at the US Customs (USCIS) 
    [within DHS], which processes immigration cases.

    [Rep] Connolly cited testimony from SSA whistleblowers
    who witnessed DOGE engineers accessing the agency’s 
    IT system with “backpacks full of laptops,
    each with access to different agency systems”,
    with the aim of combining them into one database.


    Connolly warned that not only would such a database 
    pose a threat to government cybersecurity
    which siloes its information across several agencies
    to prevent cyberattacks from accessing all info at once
    it was also very likely violating several privacy laws.

1. Customer reports problem that cannot be validated and probably doesn't exist.

2. Management insists a solution be created.

3. Solution doesn't actually find the problems the customer was reporting.

4. Management, to save face, retroactively changes what the system was supposed to be used for.

In this case, the system will fail to find millions of people committing very serious crimes and then somehow getting away with it for no reason... But to justify its existence, it will instead be used for crap like canceling visas over parking tickets and deporting otherwise-saintly residents.

... Or worse, attacking anybody who says something mean about the government.