Daniel Werfel:
What the government does when somebody comes in, whether it’s an employee or a contractor, and says, I need access to this information, the government just doesn’t hand it over. They ask questions. They ask questions like, why do you need this information? How long do you need it for to achieve your objective? And what is your proven trustworthiness to have this information?
And that’s exactly what the government is doing. People are coming in and asking for broad amount of information, information about every taxpayer, your bank account information, your address, your household makeup. And before that information is just handed over in Musk, civil servants in the government are saying, OK, tell us why you need it and for how long you need it.
And if the answer doesn’t match up, if the answer that comes across is, well, we really don’t have a good explanation of why we need everybody’s information and we don’t know how long we need it for, well, then these civil servants are going to ask more questions before they hand the data over.
And as a citizen, where my information is in those systems and your information, I’m glad that the government is asking those questions before they just knee-jerk hand the data over.
