A new case filed by more than 100 federal workers today in the US Southern District Court of New York alleged that it is a decision to provide access to the so -called Government Efficiency Department (DOGE) of Alone Musk of Trump Administration. Sensitive personal data Is illegal. The plaintiff is telling the court for an prohibition that to cut the access to Dogi to information from Personnel Management Office (OPM), which acts as the Human Resource Department of the United States and its social security on federal workers Number, data data number on the phone, and personnel files. Wire Was reported earlier The OPM was captured by the musk and its connections.
“OPM Defendants gave Dogo Defendants and Dogi agents- many of which are under 25 years old and recently there are employees of Musk's private companies- 'Administrative' OPM access to OPM Computer System, without any normal, rigid Without going through national-protection. The plaintiff accused Dogi of violating the Security Act, a 1974 law that determines how the government can collect, use and store personal information.
Charles Azel, acting director of Elon Musk, Dogge Organization, Personnel Management Office, and OPM, is named as defendants in the case. The plaintiff includes more than one hundred individual federal workers of the US government as well as groups including AFL-CIOs, a coalition of labor unions, the American Federation of Government Employees and Association of Administrative Law Judges. AFGE represents over 800,000 federal workers who range from social security administration employees to border patrol agents.
The plaintiff is represented by lawyers of the major technical industry, including a lawyer of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group, as well as Mark Lamle, an intellectual property and technical lawyer. Meta Meta In his controversial AI copyright trial, as a customer because he objected that the allegation he accuses is a hug of the company's “Nav-Nazi madness”.
“Employees' illegal access to Dog for records is the means by which they are trying to complete many other illegal ends. For example, how to find a list of all government employees to propose their illegal procurement. This provides them access to information about transgender employees so that they can illegally discriminate against those employees. And it performs ground tasks for illegal firing that we have seen in many departments, ”Lamle told Wired.
EFF lawyer Victoria Noble says that the political nature of Musk's project increases concerns about Dogi's data access. For example, Nobel says, there is a risk that Kasturi and their acolits see ideological opponents or “people as people.”
“There is a significant risk that this information can be used to eliminate employees based on improper ideas,” Nobles are important, “told Wired. “Medical information is information about disability, information about people's participation with unions.”
Personnel management and the office of the White House did not immediately respond to the requests of the comment.
The team behind the trial planned to move even further. “This is just a phase, focusing on obtaining prohibitory orders to prevent continuous violations of law,” Lemley says. The next phase will include filing a class-action case on behalf of the affected federal workers.