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The Trump administration has violated a federal privacy law by leaving workers from the Elon Musk Government Ministry (DOGE) access to millions of government workers, defenders of privacy, including the Electronic Foundation (EFF), according to a new trial filed in the name of two unions work parties and a group of current and old federal employees.
The groups allege that Doge and the Staff Management Office (OPM) have violated the 1974 privacy lawwhich protects the information maintained by federal agencies. The OPM maintains information on “tens of millions of current and former federal employees, entrepreneurs and candidates”, including handicaps, information on history checks and health files, according to the trial. The agency also has information on workers in “very sensitive roles for which even recognition of their government employment can be problematic”, as workers from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), he adds . Working groups allege that Musk and its DOGE employees have been authorized to access the OPM IT networks that stored this information even before being considered as government employees, putting sensitive information from workers in danger.
