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The Watergate-Inspired Law That's Being Used to Fight DOGE
Here's how the 1974 Privacy Act is being used in legal battles against DOGE—and how you can protect yourself from government surveillance.
Andrew Couts, WIRED’s Senior Editor of Security and Investigations, joins Global Editorial Director Katie Drummond to talk about how The 1974 Privacy Act is being used in legal battles against Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency ’s efforts to collect massive amounts of sensitive federal data. Andrew Couts: Absolutely, and I think the fact that we're even talking about that possibility of the government just ignoring judicial branch rulings, that is an example of how little we can rely on past precedent to show us where the guardrails are here. We're talking a lot about the unknown consequences of DOGE having access to these systems, and it made me think of a fun article that our executive editor Brian Barrett wrote back in 2019.
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