A new lawsuit was submitted by more than 100 federal workers today in the New York Court of the United States of the United States accused that the Trump administration's decision on providing Elon Musk is called the Government's effectiveness (DOGE. ) Sensitive personal data is illegal. The plaintiffs are asking the Court to prohibit Doge's access to information from the Human Resources Management Office (OPM), which is the function of the United States Human Resources and the data of federal employees such as numbers. social security, their phone number and human resource files. Stringed Previously reported Musk and those who were related to him took over OPM.
OPM defendants gave Doge defendants and Doge agents, many people under 25 years old and have either either either or until recently the employees of Musk's private companies, ' forced complaints. The plaintiffs accused Doge violating the Privacy Law, a 1974 law determined how the government could collect, use and store personal information.
Elon Musk, Doge, Human Resources Management Office and acting director of OPM Charles Ezell was named the defendant in the case. The plaintiffs include more than one hundred federal workers across the US government as well as the groups representing them, including AFL-CIO, an alliance of labor unions, Chinese Government Federation The period and the Judge of the Administrative Law. AFGE represents more than 800,000 federal workers, from employees of social security agency to border patrol staff.
The plaintiffs are represented by famous technology lawyers, including lawyers from Frontier Foundation, a digital right group, as well as Mark Lemley, a lawyer on property and intellectual technology, humans, recently Remove Meta As a customer in the controversial AI copyright case because he has objected to what he alleged the company's company about the madness of Neo-Nazi.
Doge's illegal access to employee records turned out to be the means they were trying to perform some other illegal ending. That's how they have a list of all government employees to make their illegal acquisition offer. It allows them to access information about transgender staff so they can discriminate illegally with those employees. And it put the foundation for the illegal fires we saw on many parts, Lemley told Wired.
Lawyer EFF Victoria Noble said there were high concerns about Doge's data access because the political nature of Musk's project. For example, Noble says, at risk of Musk and Acolytes, he can use OPM data to target an ideological opponent or the person they consider is not loyal.
There is a significant risk that this information can be used to identify employees basically ending based on inappropriate considerations, Mr. Noble Noble told Wired. Having medical information, information with disabilities, information about the participation of people with trade unions.
The Human Resources Management Office and the White House did not immediately respond to comments.
The group behind the lawsuit plans to promote further. This is only one phase, focusing on obtaining a ban to prevent the continuous violation of the law, according to Lemley. The next stage will include the collective lawsuit on behalf of the affected federal workers.