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Lawsuits Trying to Stop DOGE Access to Personal Data: Explained

Posted on February 20, 2025 by Dissent

Cassandre Coyer and Tonya Riley report:

The Trump administration faces at least a dozen lawsuits that ask judges to halt what plaintiffs call unprecedented access to the data of private citizens emanating from the disruption of federal agencies.

“This is incredibly uncharted territory in terms of having an outside agency that hasn’t been confirmed yet trying to force their way into these agencies to get unfettered access to the personal information and financial information of American citizens,” said Ron De Jesus, field chief privacy officer at Transcend, a data privacy company. “It’s something that I don’t think the Privacy Act, or the E-Government Act, or any of these kind of privacy rules and regulations that federal agencies are subject to, actually really considered.”

Here is an overview of the data-access cases filed against the government as of Feb. 19.

Read more at Bloomberg Law.

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