Alice Gainer reports: A federal judge in New York heard arguments Friday as states seek to continue blocking Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing sensitive Treasury Department records. More than a dozen states, including New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, are challenging DOGE and the Trump administration’s authority. New York Attorney General Letitia James and…
Category: Court
EFF Sues DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management to Halt Ransacking of Federal Data
On February 11, Jason Kelley of EFF wrote: EFF and a coalition of privacy defenders have filed a lawsuit today asking a federal court to block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing the private information of millions of Americans that is stored by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and to delete any data…
No penalties even when deputies share a woman’s nudes after an illegal phone search
Nate Anderson reports: In 2019, Haley Olson’s life in Grant County, Oregon, was upended when people in town appeared to know about private nude photos that Olson kept on her phone. Worse, some of the people appeared to have seen and shared the photos. The incidents all had some relationship to the local sheriff’s department,…
No Personal Liability For DOGE Yet, But With Two More Lawsuits We Get Closer
Cathy Gellis writes: I’m going to keep pounding the drum for personal liability against Musk and DOGE, partly to scare them into backing off from their unlawful seizure of our government, and eventually to compensate us for the immense harm they’ve caused. So far it doesn’t seem like anyone has tried to personally sue them for damages,…