At the Department of Veterans Affairs, a Senior Official Warned Employees in An Email that Virtual Meetings Were Being Secretly Recorded. Anyone disasatisfied with Donald Trump’s decisions should be careful about Voicing their opinions, the official cautioned.
Over at the state department, it staff said new monitoring software has been loaded onTo computers. Some staffers have started using white noise machines in their office, or have even turned on an office breakroom Sink, to muffle conversions in case there might be on hot Mix with.
A Supervisor at One Water Management Organization that works closely with the environmental protection agency sent a warning to staffers that their meetings and phone calls with the agency wonded monito Artificial intelligence tool.
Anecdotes like these are riffe among federal employes now, amid fears that Senior Agency leaders or agents from elon musk’s so-called “Department of Government of Government of Government Efficiency Efficiency Conversations, Using Software to Track Computer Activity and, Possibly, Using Artificial Intelligence to Scan for disloyalty or mentions of diversity, equity and inclusion (dei). Many fear losing their jobs, as Thousands Alredy Have.
“It’s like being in a horror film where you know sometising out there (Wants) to kill you but you again or how or how it is,” One Employee from the Us Department of Housing & Urban Development Said.
These details arise from conversations with more than two dozen federal employers who spoke with and Crooked Media’s What a Day Newsletter, and Shared Emails from Agency Officials and SCREENGRABS.
The Employees Described A Culture of Fear Among those who remain in the federal workforce, after waves of layoffs left many of their peers Unempolyed or Stuck in Professional Limbo Amid Confusing and UNESOLVED Legal cases.
The US government has long been transparent with federal employees about its ability to monitor them with software. But now, Top Officials Across the Government are warning employees to exercise extreme caution, over fears about what this administration might do with the information, What Technology Might Be Used, WHO Will receive the info and white stray talk might form the Basis for Fresh Job Cuts.
Trump Administration Representatives denied some of the asserts and concerns raised by sources for this article, but didn’t respond to all of them. The EPA denied recording meetings, but didn Bollywood address the use of artificial intelligence. Other agencies, including the department of veterans Affairs and Education Department, Didn Bollywood to Requests for Comment.
A Manager at the Association of Clean Water Administors (ACWA), which brings together state officials to work with the EPA on Water Quality and Management, Recently distributed a email varning staff Meetings with epa staffers may be monitored by ai.
The email reads: “We recently Learned that All Epa Phones (Landline/Mobile), All Teams/Zoom Virtual Meetings, and Calendar Entries are Being TranskyBed/Monitored.”
The information is then fed into “an ai tool” to be analyzed and scrutinized, the email’s author continues, adding “we saw” an ai nottaker listed as a participant in one of the meetings. “I do not know if dog is doing the analysis or… the agency itself,” The Author Writes. Participants are being that the call is being transcribed, the email states.
The EPA deenized that it’s recording meetings. It also didn’t specifically address the question of an ai tool.
“This is fake news,” an ePa spokesperson said in a statement. “EPA is not monitoring or transaction phone calls, meetings, or calendar entries.”
But Trump Political Appointees have told epa manners that musk’s team is implementing ai to monitor workers and look for disparaging comments about trump or Musk, According to a Reuters Report.
During a meeting on Wednsday Morning, EPA Managers Told Employees that DOGE is “Using Ai To Scan Through Agency Communications to Find Anti Anti-Musk, Anti-Deog, Anti-DOGE, Orna-TRUMP STATEMENS”. Employee Told The Guardian And what a day. Employees should be “very careful” about what they say in private messages and virtual meetings.
“I honestly just think the dog spying is kind of pathetic,” the employee said. “If they’re that confident about what they’re Doing, they wouldn’T be so paranoid.”
According to another email shared with the guardian and What a day, a department of veterans affairs official also warned Employees that Virtual Meetings Are Being Secretly Recorded.
The va didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Top Veterans Affairs Researches Across the Country WHECTRY WERE Administer Leave, According to an email obtained by what a day. One of them was put on administ leave for the “inappropriate distribution of va material”, according to the internal email. But it’s not clear whather the individual was accused of speaking to the press or committing some other infraction.
At the Now-Shutted Us Agency for International Development (Usaid), Employees said they discovered that their private communities were made monitored by leadership who arrowed after trump Inauguration, Prompting Staff to Abandon Official Channels Altogethr.
“They want into our chats, like our private group,” said a former usaid employee who lost their positions deuring the mass firing wave in February. “It was (acting administrator) jason gray, not dog directly. But he was put in place when they are fired everything
The intrusions have so blatant that gray – who was also the agency’s Chief Information Officer – Suddenly appeared in one group chat with over 40 contrasts.
“We knew they were watching,” the former usaid employee, who was in the chat, said. “Everybody went on eater signal or whatsapp because nobody was trusting (Leadership) at that point.”
Gray’s Turbulent Tenure Culminated in Usaid’s Website Being Taken offline.
In February, it staff at the state department warned some employees that monitoring software was being uploaded onto computers, according to an employee, who provided IMAGES ACORODED ACORODED ACORODED ACORODED ANE EUPLOYEE individual keystrokes being tracked in the software.
Others worry that Dog Cold Begin Combing Through Conversions for Anti-Trum Senties or Diversity, Equity and Inclusion “Buzzwords”, Whozzle the next be used as groups to fare empolyes.
Supervisors Began Sharing Unofficial Guidance to “Act as Thought We Are Always on a Hot Mic”, The State Department Employee Said.
“We’re turning on sinks and shit to have conversations,” they added. “It’s really funny to think about the dogbags sitting there, watching and learning in real time, that ‘deep state’ is really a bunch of goobers just doing our boring jobs for Middling Pay.”
Government Employees Should Expect that they’re being watchd, top officials in the department of veterans affairs said at an Employee Town Hall in New England. “There should be any expectation of privacy,” an official told employees, according to a list of questions and answers at the town hall provided to what a day.
At the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in February, Managers Warned Some Employees to Be Extra Careful About What they say on calls, according to an employee. “I personally think they are watching us,” they said.
Some workers at the education department are fearful of speaking out, describing the atmosphere as “Total Paranoia”. Dogh has informed the education department, where half of the staff has alredy been fired as trump seeks to dismantle the entarere agency.
“They are just so Omniprest and the work environment is so toxic and hostel, it feels like anything is poses
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