WASHINGTON (AP) – A group of trade unions requests the Federal Court to stop the emergency order Elon Musk The Ministry of Governmental efficiency from access to allergies Social Security Data of millions of Americans.
The emergency relief request was submitted late on Friday at the Federal Court of Maryland by the Democratic Group in the Legal Services Group against the Social Security Administration and its delegate on behalf of Liland Dodk. The unions want the court to prevent Duj from reaching the extensive personal data preserved by the agency.
The deposit includes a linear kidnapping from Tiffany Flick, a former former agency who says professional civil service employees are trying to protect data from DOGE. “Ignore our accurate privacy systems and operations now threaten security with SSA data that includes millions of Americans,” Felk wrote in the court documents.
The union lawyer and a group of retirees behind the lawsuit said it is not quite clear the type of access that Dog may have personal data about taxpayers. But she said that the clear scope and lack of information about what Dog is looking for means that the potential effect is “huge”.
“What basically you have is a doge just has passed and is going through its way to reach millions of data for Americans. They cannot explain the reason for their desire in this data. They can’t really tell you about the data they want. They just want everything. They want the source code, and they want to do so without any restrictions.”
The Social Security Administration did not immediately respond to Saturday’s request to comment on the lawsuit, which was originally submitted last month.
Dog’s work during the early stages of the Trump administration drew nearly twenty cases. Judges raised questions in many cases about DOGE’s sweeping efforts to reduce costs, which were conducted with little general information about their employees and operations. But the judges She did not always agree The risks are imminent enough to prevent Duji from government systems.
Discounts on the plane Social Security Administration Questions about possible effects are asked on the benefits of tens of millions of recipients.
Among the possible changes in the agency is the workers ’ More than 10 % of the workforce And closing dozens of offices throughout the country. All of this is part of the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the size of the federal workforce.
Dog reached other government databases, including in Cabinet and Tax Authority. The Trump administration generally said that efforts aim to eliminate what it claims to be waste and government fraud.
Friday, a federal judge in Washington He refused to prevent Duji employees From access to treasury systems that contain sensitive personal data for millions of people. American boycott judge, Colin Kolar Couteli, admitted anxious privacy about this work. Dog is still limited by a different order of the court in New York.
In addition, the February Agreement between the Personnel Management Office and the Tax Authority will be allowed that the Doge and Gavin Kligh employee will be allowed to access the Tax Authority systems, but not the personal information of taxpayers.
