Federal workers Sue Elon Musk and Doge to cut access to data
More than 100 current and former federal workers have continued Elon Musk and the Agency of the Ministry of Effectiveness of the Government for which he allegedly heads Access very sensitive personnel records without appropriate verification or authorization, according to a New federal trial Tuesday filed on Tuesday.
The trial was filed in the South New York district by 104 workers as well as various unions representing government employees. The complainants ask for the main HR agency of the government, the staff management office (OPM), to cut access to Doge and its agents.
“The defendants of the OPM gave the defendants of Doge and the agents of Doge – many of whom are less than 25 years old and were or were until recently employees of private Musk companies -” administrative “access to IT systems OPM, without undergoing normal and rigorous verification of national security ”, reads the trial.
The complaint appoints Elon Musk, DOGE, the OPM and the current director of the OPM Charles Ezell as defendants.
The trial alleges that Doge’s access to OPM files has violated the privacy law, which prohibits inappropriate access to personal data, including in federal agencies.
“The privacy law makes illegal for OPM’s defendants to provide access to millions of OPM personnel files to Doge’s defendants, who do not have a legitimate and legitimate need for such access “Says the complaint. “No exception to the privacy law covers the access of defendants to DOGE to the files held by OPM.”
The trial indicates that DOGE agents were not government employees when they had access to OPM computer networks. He calls 19 -year -old worker, Edward Coristine, who would have went through “big balls” online, to be fired of a cybersecurity company after an internal probe on data leaks during its job.
The pursuit also alleges that Doge’s access to federal data of workers could arouse harmful professional consequences for them, noting that Musk and President Trump threatened To dismiss employees considered to be unfair. The disclosure of their financial data could also expose workers to piracy by criminals and foreign actors, according to the complaint.
The trial arrives in the midst of an increasing controversy on DOGE access to sensitive government data While the agency is starting to institute mass layoffs and other reforms through the federal government.
The trial is focused on obtaining an injunction to cut this access, but is only the “phase one” before a collective appeal, a lawyer from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Victoria Noble, said wired.
Doge, Musk and OPM did not immediately respond to requests for comments.
