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More than 100 current and former federal workers sued Elon Musk and the government efficiency agency, which is allegedly leading to very sensitive personal records, without proper control or permission, new federal lawsuit Was submitted on Tuesday.
The lawsuit was submitted in the southern district of New York 104 employees and the trade unions of government workers. The plaintiffs are asking the government’s main HR agency, the staff Management Office (OPM), to reduce access to DOGE and its agents.
“OPM defendants DOGE defendants and DOge agents have been younger than 25 years old, and recently employees of MUSK private companies-“ administrative ”access to OPM computer systems without normal, strict national security control checks” Read a lawsuit.
The complaint calls Elon Musk, Doge, OPM and current OPM director Charles Ezell.
The lawsuit claims that obtaining OPM records have violated the Privacy Act, which prohibits inadequate access to personal data, including federal agencies.
“Protection of privacy makes OPM defendants access to OPM’s personal records for DOGE defendants who have no legal and legal need for such access,” the complaint says. “It does not include DOGE defendants’ access to OPM records from the Data Protection Act.”
According to the lawsuit, DOGE agents were not government employees at the time they received access to OPM computer networks. Challenges 19-year-old DOGE worker Edward Coristine who allegedly Online went with “big balls” because were fired He leaked from cyber security company after the internal probe during his work leakage.
The lawsuit also claims that DOGE access to federal worker data can cause harmful professional consequences for them, noting that the President of the musk and the President of Trump threatened to consider the employees unfaithful. The disclosure of their financial data can also be explored by criminals and foreign actors, says the complaint.
The lawsuit arises in the midst of an increasing debate on DOGE’s access to sensitive government data when the agency begins to introduce mass layoffs and other reforms throughout the federal government.
The litigation procedure focuses on ordering access, but only the first -phase, the group earnings lawsuit, the electronic frontier foundation lawy He said to the wired.
Representatives of DOGE, OPM and MUSK companies did not immediately respond to the comment.
