My husband said DOGE is monitoring fed emails and looking for signs of disloyalty to Trump, in the emails. He is a fed.

[LiberalLoner]

Feels like we are now East Germany under Soviet rule.

They are monitoring emails of fed workers sent out, and sent to them, for certain keywords.

[walkingman]

1. My wife keeps telling me to take this shit more seriously than I am. I'm thinking she may be right.

[NoRethugFriends]

2. seriously? you needed your wife to tell you to take it seriously?

[walkingman]

19. I am not fearful (that is her issue). She is at the point where she thinks they could actually come for us

as liberal in a very conservative part of Texas (Hill Country). She is even afraid they will take our money.

So no, I am not that worried personally - I do worry about the future of our country but I cannot change the way the majority of people think. I used to think education was the answer but I am beginning to think that technology and religion are the major players and not sure if you can stop those factors.

[kkmarie]

33. I'm with your wife with those same fears

I'm very afraid they will use our direct deposit info to drain money out of our bank accounts. I'm also concerned that my voting record will show I vote for democrats. I am grateful that my state no longer requires you to declare on voting records what party you support.

[walkingman]

43. In Texas it is public record which party you register. I can see my neighbors and they are all Rethugs

except one in my area. It is sad. Ironically when I was first transferred to Austin and bought acreage in the Hill Country all of my neighbors (WWII generation) were all Dems. Most of them are gone now and their offspring are almost all right-wingers.

[Hotler]

3. They took over the CIA and now have the NSA Utah Data Center. Every phone call, email, tweet goes through there

before arriving at its destination.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

[MineralMan]

4. Not ALL emails. That would be impossible.

Maybe some work emails at some agency or department, but not ALL emails.

[LiberalLoner]

8. It's easy to use AI to sift through all emails to find certain keywords. Almost no effort at all. Flagged emails then

Get sent to doge team to fire said employees.

[Shermann]

10. Yes, this is the perfect application for AI.

Flagged emails would get forwarded to a human for further review.

Employment contracts often include non-disparagement clauses which can conceivably be extended to cover POTUS. Let's see Musk put it in writing.

[MineralMan]

21. Not ALL emails. Not a chance.

Where are your emails stored? Old ones. New ones. Where are they? Mine are on a Yahoo server. Along with countless billions of others.

Now, it might be easy for an AI algorithm to look at all emails on one server. Very easy, in fact. But there are countless servers storing archives of old emails. To get at them, you have to have some sort of read permission on a particular server. How many emails do you suppose are created and sent every day? Every hour, even?

Going through all of those emails, looking for keywords is not an instant process. It's not an easy process. Emails on many servers are encrypted, as well, to prevent access to the clear text.

You are simply incorrect. Finally, nobody cares about most emails in any way. Only a targeted search will yiled any kind of useful results.

[RoseTrellis]

27. .gov mails

I think the OP is saying the official emails are being searched by AI on the exchange server. This is the system that the various .mil, .gov, etc uses. Obviously not a private email server. Pretty sure in the fine print when you get hired is a consent for monitoring on the official system.

[qazplm135]

29. Yes

All federal gov emails can theoretically be monitored and you need to consent to that upfront.

Now the volume is crazy high but yeah if you are looking for keywords it's possible

[MineralMan]

39. The OP did not mention that until I replied as above.

Nothing about government emails when I replied.

[NoRethugFriends]

36. Naivete

[ancianita]

31. Do you know what the keywords are? or likely to be?

I've no idea.

[FarPoint]

5. Does one think DU is also being monitored?

I sense it may...because posts we make can appear on Google....

If true ..what should we do ?

[hlthe2b]

6. Probably, but DU admins have long made sure that there is a line that can't be crossed in what is posted...

I don't think most DUers WOULD cross that line, but the (probable trolls) that DO are quickly dealt with/deleted.

So, while this is a community of opposition, it would be damned hard to make a case that that poses an actual violent threat.

So, I think they would have to go after other targets... At least I hope so.

[FarPoint]

25. Yea, DU does have good safeguard rules....

I just know we all need to be on the alert, guard to protect ourselves... I never anticipated such a coup de tah...

[HereForTheParty]

28. I wouldn't post anything here that I wouldn't put on a sign in my front yard

nm

[LAS14]

34. What would be the point? Of COURSE we're anti-Trump!!!! nt

[milestogo]

7. What can it do except look for keywords?

I get tons of email from organizations which would be considered disloyal: the Democratic party and Democratic elected officials. I'm sure at least a third of the country is complaining to their elected officials about what is going on. What are they going to do with millions of people who are "disloyal"? There are too many of us for them to bother with.

[LiberalLoner]

9. The federal workers who send or receive certain key words in emails will be fired.

My husband is a fed, I should have made that clear from the start. I will edit the post.

[milestogo]

11. Oh I was thinking personal emails.

But in my job I am always careful with emails and chats. I never assume anything is private. I'm in IT and I've seen people fired over emails and chats that were inappropriate.

[LiberalLoner]

12. But now, even me sending an email to my husband saying, for example, that I donated to a Democratic politician,

Will get my husband fired.

[milestogo]

16. I was talking with a female manager about someone at work and I said

that guy is as smart as Pete Buttigieg. It just flew out of my mouth because he is the smartest person I could think of. She didn't react, but I guess I gave my politics away.

[sinkingfeeling]

13. There's a published list of words/phrases that are banned from federal use.

https://gizmodo.com/the-list-of-trumps-forbidden-words-that-will-get-your-paper-flagged-at-nsf-2000559661

[milestogo]

15. Don't say "women".

But you can still say "fuck that shit".

[ancianita]

41. Wow. Thanks. "Equality" is one of them.

historically,
indigenous community,
inequalities
inequality
inequitable
inequities
minorities
minority
political
prejudice
privileges
race and ethnicity
racial
racial diversity
racial inequality
racial justice
racially
racism
sense of belonging
sexual preferences
social justice
status
stereotypes
systemic
trauma
underrepresented
underserved
undervalued
victim
women

Unbelievable.

[FoggyLake]

30. Yes, that's a lot of people...

But what they do is single out individuals to make examples of. It might be you, or it might not. Just saying.

[Prairie_Seagull]

14. Great now all we need is a language we can "Code talk" in.

Kidding of course.

One thing we can be pretty sure of is we won't know of it.

[LiberalLoner]

17. They already removed the spoon emoji. Is there a red swingline stapler emoji?

[JanMichael]

18. Use Pig Latin

[peggysue2]

20. The American Stasi

To put a point on it, our new overlords are encouraging citizens to rat out their neighbors and friends for signs of disloyalty (sympathy for immigrants, for instance) to the New America.

This is as predictable as it is vile.

[Irish_Dem]

22. This is how it is done in China.

Emails are monitored.
There are community leaders who keep track of what you do and say.
Friends, neighbors, co-workers, family report you so they can get better jobs and apartments.

[Renew Deal]

23. This type of technology exists

It’s called sentiment analysis, and the federal governments email provider offers it. (Microsoft)

[haele]

24. Yup. Our .gov, .mil, and .edu emails are always monitored.

Now that he has his pet server hooked up to HR OPM and we've been forced to accept the "ping", DOGE has our emails.
The issue I can coming up see is clueless or malicious MAGA sending provoking or harassing messages through a government email to Federal Employees known as members of an "minority" group or liberals to trigger either a DEI or loyalty purge against them.

"Terry X at the Department of Z made decided against me or my company getting that contract? I'll show that lazy punk!"

Or

"That Welfare Queen down the street who's lowering my property value with her crappy yard and kids toys in the driveway has a job at the local Social Security building? Obviously unqualified and ripping off us hardworking Taxpayers - she needs to go now!"

So Terry X gets an email at their ,gov email accusing them of being biased against Mr. Mediocre White Man-Baby, who knows And is flagged for "review".

[rso]

26. Emails

When I was a fed, when we signed up for access to a .gov computer, there was a clear line stating that communications are not private and subject to monitoring, so that part has been in place for decades.

[EdmondDantes_]

40. My work computer has a logon notice about being monitored

I don't work for the government, but I do sometimes have access to personal information of the public and so I take my work computer security seriously. I don't do anything non-work related on it other than very light news surfing and even that I mostly use my phone, not on their network for. There's just no need to do anything on my work computer that isn't work related. No sense putting myself, the company or the people who's information I have access to at that risk.

[COL Mustard]

32. I'm also a Fed

And careful about what I put in email on my Gov't devices, and especially on Gov't time/property. But I certainly don't control what someone sends me.

Remember, there's no right to privacy in the workplace, especially in the Federal workplace. Your hubs should be very careful with his emails.

[Meowmee]

35. I suspected they would do things like this

The new nazis/ McCarthyites etc.

[ProfessorGAC]

37. While I Disapprove Of DOGE...

...and of the loyalty tests in evidence here, I don't think it's completely put of bounds for a workplace to demand no political opinion in company owned media.
These folks, even though I probably agree with them 100%, shouldn't be sending emails with political criticisms by internal systems.
Simply following regular business protocol makes this shopping disappear because there's nothing to snoop.

[Oneironaut]

38. We are, basically.

The US is a Fascist dictatorship. Most people haven’t started to realize what has hit them yet, though.

It’ll get worse too. Soon, we will have a defacto state-controlled media, as, all other news organizations will be kept in the dark (or worse, harassed with lawfare). Kash Patel will instruct the FBI to investigate any criticism of Trump as a criminal offense. The Office of Faith will try to censor any media that don’t support extremist Christian values, and, LGBTQ+ and “DEI” themes will be banned. Also. The CIA will be purged of loyalists and turned into an American Gestapo that reports to Trump and Trump only.

Many of these have already started, in fact, or, are openly supported by those in the Trump Administration.

Also - PS - An executive order Trump put out about the death penalty is purposely ambiguous as to allow mass executions of illegal immigrants, just because they’re illegal immigrants. We’re already there.

[jeffreyi]

42. If feds are using company computers for personal emails

They are asking for trouble. The systems have been off limits for personal use since, like, forever. There are much better and more secure avenues.

[Scrivener7]

44. That must be terrifying for your husband, and very stressful for both of you. I'm sorry you're having to deal with that.