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DOGE Hit With Electronic Privacy Group's Suit Over "Data Breach"


A leading data privacy group is suing the Trump administration’s new Department of Government Efficiency and other federal agencies over what the group claims is “the largest and most consequential data breach in U.S. history.”

That includes a similar data privacy suit filed Sunday by the American Federation of Teachers and other labor unions that represent more than two million workers. The OPM and Treasury defendants “manifestly failed to provide and abide by legally required safeguards to protect the information within their systems,” EPIC says. EPIC also seeks to prohibit DOGE from collecting or disclosing personal information found in OPM and Treasury systems; statutory and punitive damages to the plaintiff “Doe 1,” a federal agency employee; and reasonable attorneys’ fees.

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