The United States Civil Freedom League (ACLU) Tell federal legislators on Friday Elon Musk and his Efficiency of the Ministry of the Government (DOGE) has been controlling a number of federal computer systems containing data that are strictly limited according to the federal laws. In some cases, any deviation in the way of using data may not only be illegal, ACLU said, but the unconstitutional.
Doge members invaded or controlled a number of federal agencies responsible for managing human resources records for nearly two million federal employees, as well as offices to provide the Government to the Government one. A series of information technology and software services.
Illegally using sensitive or personal data is part of the non -ideological effort to purge the government of the ideological staff that can form one Federal law violations. The Private Act And The Federal Information Modernization Law For example, prohibited, unauthorized access and use of government human resources data.
In a letter to members of a number of supervisory committees of the National Assembly, ACLU lawyers emphasized Doge's access to the treasury systems that handle the majority of federal payments, including Including details of social security benefits, tax refund and salary. Wired quote Report from TuesdayThe lawyers noted that, in addition to sponsoring specific agencies or individuals, this has granted Doge to access personal information groups, including millions of social security, Banking accounts, business finance and personal finance.
The lawyers wrote: Access to others and abuse information can be harmful to millions. Young engineers, without experience in human resources, government interests or legal requirements surrounding privacy have achieved unprecedented supervision for federal staff payments, Social security recipients and small businesses and with it, control those payments.
ACLU lawyers emphasize that, in normal cases, these systems will lie under the control of professional civil servants with many years of training and experience in managing sensitive data, socks Both survive during the comprehensive test.
The group has also submitted the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) for the Doge's communication records to be determined, as well as for details of any requirements that the task force can realize Currently accessing sensitive and personal data at the Human Resource Management Office (OPM).
Other files that ACLU seeks related to DOGE plans to deploy artificial intelligence tools throughout the Government, as well as any plan or discussion about how the task force has a plan. Plan to comply with federal laws to protect sensitive financial and medical information, such as the law on responsibility and responsibility for health information (HIPAA).
Stringed The first report on Thursday These are DOGE cooperatives at the general service management agency, where the US government's IT infrastructure management has begun to quickly promote a AI Homebrew chatbot called GSAI. A source of knowledge about AI's previous transactions of GSA said that the Wired has launched a pilot program last fall in order to test the use of Gemini, a chatbot. Adjustment for Google Workplace. However, Doge quickly determined that Gemini would not provide the desired data level of the task force.