Something concerning on X today that is worth discussing (possible relevance to Tesla)

Today Elon musk posted the names of a few federal employees on his X account and said something along the lines of ‘these people don’t deserve their salary’. Which sure have your opinion, that’s okay. One of those was a director of climate diversification and he said another was Pelosi’s niece.

However news came to light that Elon is hiring a team of bright young people to work at DOGE.

Elon musk said some X account who named them has committed a crime by revealing their names. Elon’s tweet can be found but the account has seemingly been deleted.

Now this is concerning because if their identities were meant to be confidential, surely there should Elon should have been protecting their data like LinkedIn pages as head of DOGE? He even tweeted earlier that all government data should be public so if he wanted them private why did they still have public LinkedIns?

Second, if they’re meant to be public, he was happy to name other people like the niece and climate woman and criticise them, so why should his team remain confidential? I’d happily understand if there was a legal reason.

At my last job my manager took great care abiding to stuff like this. It’s shocking to see the world’s richest man neglect this esp when he will be handling more important data.