Electronic border fund, as well as several federal trade unions of employees, filed a lawsuit Against Elon Mask and his team of the Ministry of Government (DOGE) to block their access to confidential and identify information about millions of Americans. In particular, the plaintiffs strive to block them from the opportunity to gain access to data stored in personnel management (OPM) and delete any information They are still gatheredThe field in the lawsuit also calls OPM and the acting director of Charles Ezell as accused.
In early February, Reuters He said that Musk assistants blocked OPM employees from agency systems. “We have no visibility in what they do with a computer and data systems,” one of his sources said then. OPM has the largest collection of employees in the United States and contains confidential information about both past and current federal employees, as well as on applicants for federal positions that have applied to USAJOBS.GOV. As EFF notes, the records of the agency contain the names of federal employees, the dates of childbirth, home addresses, social insurance numbers, work experience, trade union events, wages, efficiency reviews, for overcoming life, life insurance, death benefits, as well as classified NDA information. The list even includes the names and initials of the surname of the CIA employees in very sensitive roles.
In his announcement, EFF explained that the incorrect handling of information in the OPM systems can lead to “significant and diverse abuse”, and that “uncontrolled access” of the Doga itself puts federal employees in the risk of violations of confidentiality and even political pressure and blackmail. The Fund also emphasized that federal risk workers are faced with the access of the Dog to unlimited information and the possession of Musk on X. He quoted the old Twites Musk, calling specific government personalities, whose work he would reduce even before access to the OPM database.
OPM violated the 1974 confidentiality law, when he gave Doni “unlimited, wholesale” to his systems, EFF said. In accordance with the law on confidentiality, the written consent of the person whose data is transmitted is required if government records must be disclosed. Meanwhile, the plaintiffs accuse Musk and his dog agents of exceeding the “scale of their legal power”, controlling the OPM systems, because this led to the illegal disclosure of their content. “Our case is quite simple: OPM data are extremely sensitive, OPM transmitted it to DOGE, and this violates the law on confidentiality,” writes EFF. “We ask the court to block any further exchange of data and demand that the dog immediately destroy any copies of the loaded material.” Last week, the federal judge blocked Musk and Rain Access to the Treasury Information ordered them to destroy any data that they have already collected.