WASHINGTON - A group of labor unions is asking a federal court to issue an emergency order to prevent Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing sensitive Social Security data on millions of Americans.
The emergency motion was filed late Friday night in federal court in Maryland by the legal services group Democracy Forward against the Social Security Administration and its acting commissioner, Leland Dudek. The unions want the court to block DOGE's access to the agency's vast stores of personal data.
Included in the filing is an affidavit from Tiffany Flick, a former high-level agency official, who claims that career officials are trying to protect the data from DOGE. "Failure to follow our careful privacy systems and processes now threatens the security of the data SSA maintains on millions of Americans," Flick wrote in court documents.
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