⚖️ EFF Lawsuit Over Federal Employee Data Sharing Moves Forward
A federal judge just refused to dismiss the EFF’s lawsuit against OPM, DOGE, and Elon Musk—a major privacy milestone.
The case alleges:
・📂 OPM improperly shared sensitive data of millions of federal employees
・🏛️ The data transfer to Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) violated the Privacy Act of 1974
・🚨 The court ruled the disclosures were plausibly “illegal, rushed, and dangerous”
EFF, backed by major federal employee unions, is demanding:
・An injunction to stop the data sharing
・The return of already-transferred data
This case could define the limits of federal data handling in politically charged administrations. It’s also a wake-up call for how privacy laws must evolve to meet new power structures.
👉 https://www.eff.org/press/releases/judge-rejects-governments-attempt-dismiss-eff-lawsuit-against-opm-doge-and-musk
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