Doge staff violated US treasury rules by sharing personal data

The calculation sheet shared by them had names, types of transactions and money.

Although the treasury did not reveal how many payments the spreadsheet contained, David Ambrose, the privacy director for the Fiscal Service Bureau said: “The name in the spreadsheet are considered to be low risk, because the name are not accompanied by more specific identifiers.”

However, he acknowledged that the sharing of the pii without encryption and the prior approval of the writing violated the office policies.