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CNN 5 Things
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🗓️ 7 February 2025
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| 0:31.2 | Hey there from CNN. I'm Krista Bow with the five things you need to know for Friday, February 7th. |
| 0:37.8 | And his latest move to overhaul the federal workforce, President Donald Trump is now asking |
| 0:42.2 | for the names of lower performing employees. |
| 0:45.2 | The Office of Personal Management sent a memo to department leaders yesterday, wanting |
| 0:49.6 | information on workers who received less than, quote, fully successful performance ratings over the last |
| 0:55.1 | three years. Meanwhile, the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency is facing growing |
| 1:00.6 | legal action over the information it's gaining access to. Multiple lawsuits are challenging the |
| 1:06.3 | alleged actions taken by Musk associates to seize the keys of IT systems at some government departments |
| 1:12.3 | and agencies. |
| 1:13.6 | And as Wired Reporter Victoria Elliott explains, it's not clear what the engineers are doing |
| 1:18.1 | with the data once they gain access. |
| 1:20.6 | We don't know if they're taking data and using it to train AI systems or using AI to analyze it. |
| 1:28.5 | And like, that's a whole other issue around privacy and government data |
| 1:33.2 | that needs to be examined more thoroughly. |
| 1:36.4 | Because it's not just are they going into these systems and messing around on them |
| 1:41.4 | or maybe it might be hard. |
| 1:42.7 | It's what are they doing with the access to the |
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