Is there any reason this data shouldn't be public for everyone to read?
You personally are cool with me personally knowing your salary and where you live? Please just post that here right now.
Would you want a prospective employer to have access to your past tax returns when negociating salary?
The article also mentions information about employees operating in conflict zones.
Most of it already was, but normies don't go looking for public expenditure databases, so they assume it doesn't exist. Then DOGE comes along and pretends they're doing something new.
define "everyone" -- elected officials who are supposed to have oversight and insight into where our tax dollars are going? It's not like they're providing replicas over bittorrent.
I would love it if tax returns were public (as they are in other countries), but that's not what's happening here.
Many. It's private for basic reasons, as are PII in your workplace.
Because you have a right to privacy.
Lets start with Trump and Musk.
USAID collaborates in fighting for worker rights when they are in exploitation or near-slavery.
They likely have records of the people inside organisations who provide data for them. These people usually want to remain anonymous because they fear retaliation. And in many cases, we’re not just talking about being fired or legal actions as retaliation.