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Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Being Sued Under the Privacy Act: What to Know
At least eight ongoing lawsuits related to the so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s alleged access to sensitive data hinge on the Watergate-inspired Privacy Act of 1974. But it’s not airtight.
In the month since the Trump administration began its purge of federal workers, opponents fighting DOGE in court have been pinning their hopes of stopping the world’s richest man on a 50-year-old law. Most of the exceptions deal with fairly specific circumstances, such as congressional oversight, law enforcement investigations, court orders, Census work, statistical research, and National Archives preservation. In the Labor, HHS, and CFPB case, the judge rejected the plaintiffs’ request for a temporary restraining order, saying they failed to demonstrate the likely success of their arguments about the Privacy Act and other laws.
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