There’s an audit trail showing Palantir is following privacy laws and protocols in its work with agencies like DHS and the Internal Revenue Service, the company's global privacy director said Wednesday.
A judge ordered the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to submit reports summarizing DOGE employees' access to sensitive data and how those staffers were trained, in order to prove that they didn't violate the Privacy Act.
While immigrants seem to be the current target of mass-data collection, the federal government's collection of massive amounts of personal information has implications for other populations, including those who speak out against Washington, panelists said during a webinar Wednesday hosted by the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) and the Leadership Conference’s Center for Civil Rights & Technology.
A federal judge granted an injunction against the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on Monday, ruling that DOGE employees violated the rights of federal employees when they gained access to their legally-protected sensitive information stored in OPM's systems. The judge, Denise Cote, said she would outline the injunction's scope at a later date.
The U.S. Supreme Court late Friday ruled that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) may have unfettered access to Social Security Administration data "to do their work." Some opponents of the decision said it decimated citizens' privacy rights.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)'s claim that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is committing "the largest data breach in history" lacks supporting facts, according to DOGE, the U.S. Treasury Department and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). As such, dismissing EPIC's case against DOGE is the best choice, the three federal entities said in a filing Tuesday.
District Judge Jeannette Vargas denied President Donald Trump and the Treasury Department’s motion to dissolve a preliminary injunction (PI) against the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) access to sensitive Treasury data on Tuesday. The judge ruled that the PI order should be modified so that the department and department secretary cannot provide access to payment information or systems containing sensitive information unless DOGE personnel handling it have undergone specific training and vetting.
A New York-led coalition of states filed an amended complaint against President Donald Trump and the Treasury Department on Friday, re-emphasizing the need to stop those without proper training and vetting from accessing personally identifiable information (PII) in Treasury data systems. This second complaint alleges violations of the Take Care Clause, the separation of powers doctrine and violations of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA).
President Donald Trump and the Treasury Department again pushed a federal court to dissolve a preliminary injunction halting Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to Treasury's sensitive information. The injunction is no longer needed, the government argued Wednesday.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on Friday opposed a motion from federal employees asking a court to stop OPM from disclosing records containing sensitive personal information to DOGE. The American Federation of Government Employees requested the injunction at the end of April, claiming that disclosing this data is a violation of the Privacy Act of 1974 and the Administrative Procedures Act (see 2504280027).