Jenna McLaughlin
Cybersecurity Correspondent at NPR
@NPR cybersecurity correspondent. 🎤🤖 Was: @YahooNews, @CNN, @ForeignPolicy etc. Email: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
wgbh.org | Jenna McLaughlin
April 15, 2025 In the first days of March, a team of advisers from President Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency initiative arrived at the Southeast Washington, D.C., headquarters of the National Labor Relations Board. The small, independent federal agency investigates and adjudicates complaints about unfair labor practices. It stores reams of potentially sensitive data, from confidential information about employees who want to form unions to proprietary business information.
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1 week ago |
michiganpublic.org | Jenna McLaughlin
When a team of advisers from President Trump's Department of Government Efficiency initiative arrived at the headquarters of the National Labor Relations Board, IT employees at the small, independent agency quickly became worried, according to a whistleblower declaration filed with Congress and shared with NPR. The NLRB investigates and adjudicates complaints about unfair labor practices.
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3 weeks ago |
npr.org | Stephen Fowler |Jenna McLaughlin
Recent court filings have shed more light on Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency within the Trump administration. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Scott Olson/Getty Images The DOGE staffer who resigned from his post over old racist tweets — and who broke data-sharing rules, an audit found — has been rehired to work with sensitive data at several federal agencies.
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3 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Stephen Fowler |Jenna McLaughlin
2 days agoDOGE’s Marko Elez is back on U.S. payrollThe software engineer fired over racist social media posts is now a Labor Department aide detailed to multiple agencies, according to a new court filing. A member of Elon Musk’s DOGE team — fired from the Treasury Department after the discovery of racist social media posts — has been working for …4 days agoDOGE staffer 'Big Balls' allegedly involved with cybercrime ringElon Musk's DOGE boys are currently rifling through government data.
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4 weeks ago |
laist.com | Jenna McLaughlin |Andrea Hsu
On Monday, March 24, Catherine Eschbach, the new head of a civil rights agency within the Labor Department, sent an email to her staff introducing herself and announcing her plans to downsize the agency and investigate whether the work it's been engaged in for decades is constitutional.
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Here's the piece, for those interested in reading: https://t.co/8znD14KXFd
RT @ericgeller: .@CISAgov senior adviser Cait Conley, at the top of today's third press call: "As polls begin to close, we are not currentl…
FBI tells me they're "aware of bomb threats to polling locations in several states, many of which appear to originate from Russian email domains. None of the threats have determined to be credible so far."
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger says the non-credible threats that briefly disrupted voting at two Georgia polling places originated from Russia. “We identified the source; it was from Russia," he says.
