{"id":1234581,"date":"2025-02-24T15:05:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T20:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1234581"},"modified":"2025-02-24T15:05:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T20:05:40","slug":"judge-us-govt-violated-privacy-law-by-disclosing-personal-data-to-doge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1234581","title":{"rendered":"Judge: US gov\u2019t violated privacy law by disclosing personal data to DOGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A federal judge today blocked DOGE from accessing personal data held by the US Department of Education and Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Today&#8217;s ruling follows one on Friday in a different court that blocked DOGE&#8217;s access to Department of Treasury information.<\/p>\n<p>The American Federation of Teachers and other &#8220;plaintiffs have shown that Education and OPM likely violated the Privacy Act by disclosing their personal information to DOGE affiliates without their consent,&#8221; said the <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.mdd.576070\/gov.uscourts.mdd.576070.38.0.pdf\">order<\/a> issued today by US District Judge Deborah Boardman in the District of Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This continuing, unauthorized disclosure of the plaintiffs&#8217; sensitive personal information to DOGE affiliates is irreparable harm that money damages cannot rectify,&#8221; she wrote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/02\/judges-block-doge-access-to-personal-data-in-loss-for-trump-administration\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/02\/judges-block-doge-access-to-personal-data-in-loss-for-trump-administration\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge today blocked DOGE from accessing personal data held by the US Department of Education and Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Today&#8217;s ruling follows one on Friday in a different court that blocked DOGE&#8217;s access to Department of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1234581\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1234581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1234581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1234581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1234581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1234581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}