Charles Borges, Chief Data Officer of Social Security Administration, resigned on Friday – after filing a complaint of whistleblower Government efficiency department Employees at SSA.
He said in the complaint that Dog’s employees had uploaded a copy of the social security information of the entire country on a “weak cloud environment”. The resignation of Borges from SSA was confirmed by the Government Accountability Project, providing their legal representation.
A Social Security Administration spokesman denied the claim in a statement that the referenced data was “closed from the wall” from the Internet, and SSA “is not known about any agreement in this environment.”
The spokesperson said, “The data referred to the complaint is stored in a long -lasting environment used by the SSA and away from the Internet.”
In June, the Supreme Court temporarily Picked up The prohibition of a lower court cleared the way to allow Dogi to reach sensitive social security information. A complaint was filed by two labor unions and one advocacy group claiming that permission to reach would violate the privacy act and a federal law. A lower court agreed with the plaintiff and issued an prohibition, and an appellate court also refused to lift the stay. Solicitor General D. John Syre then appealed to the Supreme Court, arguing that the prohibition was forced to stop the federal employees to stop the data contained within them.
In Borges’ resignation letter, SSA Commissioner Frank Bisigno was sent on Friday, he wrote that “he was inadvertently resigning due to action against me against SSA, which makes my duties impossible to perform legal and morally.” He said that his departure formed “creative discharge”.
Borges said in his letter that he had faced vengeance as he reported his concerns and later submitted a complaint of his voice. He wrote, “I have faced the culture of exclusion, isolation, internal conflict and fear, an environment of hostile work has been created and the work situation has been made unbearable,” he wrote.
He alleged that IT and executive offices in SSA “newly established leadership” “culture of nervousness and fear was created, with minimal information sharing, continuous discussion on employee expiration.” And Borges claimed that he found repeated requests for visibility in those activities. “Revolt or ignored by the leadership of the agency.”
Andrea Meja, a gap attorney representing Borges, said statement This Borges “no longer realize that he could continue working in good discretion for the social security administration, which he saw.” Meja said Borges “will continue to work with the appropriate oversight bodies.”
Borges served as the Chief Data Officer of SSA since January. Earlier, he worked at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and was the President of the White House during the Biden administration, according to LinkedIn. He also acted in data handling roles in the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division and Naval Air Systems Command.
Friday on LinkedIn, he wrote“It is not wrong to be moral and morally right with yourself.”
When asked about Borges, a SSA spokesperson refused to comment on the matters of the personnel.
