The National ID Nobody Voted For

Login.gov now reports 180 million accounts spanning 700 services and 54 agencies, and the man recently placed in charge of expanding it is Greg Hogan, a former executive at the self-driving-car company comma.ai who had never worked in government before the second day of Donald Trump’s second term. That was when Hogan entered the Office of Personnel Management as its chief information officer, becoming the person responsible for deciding who could access the employment records of nearly every federal worker in the country.

Hogan barely exists online. There are no interviews, panels, or public statements explaining what he believes government technology should do, and nearly every word attributed to him in the press came from internal emails obtained by reporters. His first major contribution to the federal government, however, was difficult to miss, because he helped build the system Elon Musk used to email approximately two million public employees and demand a list of five things they had accomplished that week, with Musk threatening that failure to respond would be treated as a resignation.

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