President Donald Trump and the Treasury Department doubled down Friday on their request that a court dissolve a preliminary injunction (PI) that's preventing Treasury employees from accessing systems containing citizens' sensitive information.
New York led a coalition of states that asked a federal court Wednesday to ignore a motion from President Donald Trump and the Treasury Department to dissolve a preliminary injunction. The injunction bars Treasury employees from accessing systems that contain personally identifiable information (PII) or financial information of payees.
Court cases on Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to people’s sensitive information are developing precedents that will shape privacy protections in government data sharing, said an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) official at a partly virtual University of Illinois privacy conference Thursday.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) renewed its call for a court to require that the Social Security Administration (SSA) promptly process its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for documents related to possible privacy violations.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed an amended complaint Tuesday renewing allegations that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is committing the "largest and most consequential data breach" through its access to private information at federal agencies.
President Donald Trump and the Treasury Department asked a federal court Thursday to fully dissolve the preliminary injunction barring Treasury employees from accessing department systems that contain personally identifiable information (PII) or financial information of payees.
A split federal appeals court Wednesday maintained a block on the Department of Government Efficiency's attempts to access the sensitive data of millions of people on Social Security.
District Judge Denise Cote on Monday scheduled a hearing for May 29 at 10 a.m. EST to discuss the American Federation of Government Employees' Friday request for a preliminary inunction against the Office of Personnel Management, which would prevent OPM from disclosing records containing sensitive personal information to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Disclosing such data is a violation of the Privacy Act of 1974 and the Administrative Procedures Act (APA), AFGE alleged at the U.S. District Court for Southern New York.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) said Thursday that DOGE employees' access to sensitive personal data didn't violate the 1974 Privacy Act. The government units presented their arguments in an answer to a complaint from the American Federation of Government Employees as part of a case the union brought against them. They then asked the court to dismiss the case with prejudice.
The Privacy Act includes cybersecurity provisions that can be used to hold the Department of Government Efficiency liable for data abuse, Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney Mario Trujillo said Thursday.