The left has panicked lately that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has gained access to federal databases. However, they have been perfectly content to let career bureaucrats collect such information from the American people. There was no massive outcry, for example, when Congress passed the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), a law that requires owners of almost all corporations registered in the states to report personal information to the federal bureaucracy to be collected in a massive database.

Such databases have already proven to invite hacking and abuse from actors far more sinister than DOGE. Last year, Chinese state-sponsored hackers breached the Department of the Treasury’s computer security guardrails. In 2016, hackers broke into the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system (EDGAR), which processes over 1.7 million electronic filings annually, and “traded on at least nonpublic 157 earnings releases,” enriching themselves by over $4 million. In 2018, a hacker breached 60 million records of US Postal Service user account details; and in 2015, hackers stole........

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