Chris Riotta reports:
Lawsuits are mounting against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s push to slash government spending, as Washington raises alarms over reports that Musk’s aides are feeding sensitive federal data into artificial intelligence systems to pinpoint budget cuts.
The Department of Government Efficiency – a Musk-led task force with dubious authority to gut federal agencies – has set its sights on the Department of Education, as Trump pushes sweeping cuts to the agency responsible for federal student aid, public school funding and civil rights enforcement in school systems nationwide. Representatives from DOGE recently began feeding data from the department’s sensitive internal financial systems into AI software accessed through Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service, according to the Washington Post, after gaining access to key systems across federal agencies in early February (see: White House Defends Musk Amid Sensitive Data Access Uproar).
Read more at Data Breach Today.