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,…
Category: U.S.
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,…
Federal judge skeptical DOGE has authority to embed agents throughout federal government
Ryan Knappenberger reports: A federal judge Friday expressed doubt that agents from Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency had the authority to access wide swaths of data at the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. U.S. District Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, pushed the…
DOGE Betrays Foundational Commitments of the Privacy Act of 1974
Law professor Danielle Citron writes: Under the auspices of the so-called “Department of Government Efficiency,” Elon Musk and former staffers—all recent college and high school graduates—have been given access to agency databases teeming with sensitive personal information. The group has entered the Treasury Department’s payment system, which stores federal tax returns, Social Security numbers, home…