After months of Congress quarrels that witnessed the abolition of the independent supervision council in Erfir, President Gerald Ford signed the Privacy Law on Law on December 31, 1974. High “The vital need to provide adequate and unified private guarantees for huge quantities of personal information collected, recorded and used in our complex society.”
How is this this day?
Doug’s critics – including Democratic lawmakers, federal employees and governmental control groups – are based on giving young and controversial and controversial employees, which seem to be largely unprecedented access to sensitive government data a major violation of privacy. The incidents are “larger and more violating personal information in the history of the United States”, ” According to John DavisonLawyer of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, one of the groups to prevent Doug from arrival.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration says that Dog’s employees need to access this data to accomplish their mission of getting rid of waste spending and closing programs that contradict President Donald Trump’s agenda. After a federal judge banned the arrival of Dog to government payment systems, a White House spokesman Call “Tampering and transgressing judicial.” The musk targeted the judge On X, saying, “It should be isolated now!”
Can the Doug Privacy Law stop?
This will depend on whether many judges agree with the Trump administration arguments that claim that the law does not prevent DOGE employees from accessing sensitive data for agencies.
The government claims that people can only prosecute agencies under the privacy law in one of the four scenarios: when the agency refuses to give someone to reach a record of it; When the agency refuses to amend a person’s record as they asked; When the agency fails to maintain a person’s record and suffer from tangible damage, such as rejecting advantages; Or when the agency violates the requirements of law in ways that negatively affects someone. It remains to see whether the judges will determine that Dog’s access to data negatively affects people.
The agencies also argued that they do not violate the privacy law because Doug’s activities fall under the “routine use” of the law and “the need to know”. in Performing court In response to one legal challenge, the Ministry of Treasury said that Dog’s employees were reaching the data to determine the potential impossible payments. [their] Duties “according to Trump’s directives (which excite” the need for knowledge “) and that the participation of this information with other agencies falls under one of the” routine uses “that the agency previously revealed according to the proof of the privacy law.
The strength of this argument depends on how the judges form two questions: whether Doge employees who reach the data of each agency employee in those agencies, and whether the two exceptions apply to the situations they have reached and share data.
Who uses the privacy law to prosecute Doge?
There are at least eight lawsuits against the Trump administration about Dog’s access to federal data, all of which are partially dependent on the privacy law.
- The American Federation of Government Employees, the Association of Administrative Law, and more than 100 current and former federal workers Doug, Musk and the Personnel Management Office sue what they claim is the illegal OPM decision to grant DOGE access to a database for federal employees, claiming that DOGE staff “lacks the legal and legal need for such access.”
- Electronic Privacy Information CenterOn behalf of an unveiled federal worker, OPM, DOGE, and the Ministry of Treasury claim that DOGE allegedly granting access to the Personal OPM database and Treasury payment system “for unacceptable purposes under the privacy law.”
- Student Association at the University of California The Ministry of Education claims that students’ data is delivered to the employees who are not, in the language of the privacy law, “employees who need records in performing their duties.”
- Six government government unions, two non -profit groups, the Institute of Economic Policy for Research Tank They receive the departments of workers, health and humanitarian services, the financial consumer protection office, and Douj to prevent the office from accessing a wide range of data, including federal wage complaints and injuries reports, for the purpose of claiming “privacy law”. “
- Two government trade unions and the alliance of the Da`wah Group for retired Americans The Ministry of Treasury claims that Dog is claiming tax capabilities to the Americans in an alleged violation of both the Privacy Law Special internal revenue service rules.
- The Federation of National Treasury employees CFPB manager, Acting Russell, is suing to give information about CFPB employees to DOGE staff, claiming that they have been placed as government employees “put them outside CFPB, and thus outside the exclusion of the Privacy Law.
- Nineteen lawyers Trump and the Treasury are sue [the system] Treasury employees, “who were a violation of the privacy law.”
- Six Americans They sue the treasury and Wajj about what they describe as violations of the sensitive personal data they submitted by the government while submitting tax declarations, applying for student loans, requesting deficit payments, and receiving retirement benefits.
Where do these cases stand?
in State issue AGSand A judge quickly issued A temporary restriction that restricts access to all cabinet systems that store sensitive personal and financial data. The case has been appointed since then on a permanent basis for a different judge, from The request is slightly modified after The Trump administration intercepted Its restrictions on political appointed. A hearing was held on February 14.
in EpicThe organization has He asked the judge For a temporary restriction, it is prohibited to reach more treasury and cabinet systems. A hearing will be held on February 21.