A federal judge in Maryland said on Monday that the Education Department and the Human Resources Administration blocked the Department of Education and Human Resources from disclosing sensitive data to members of Elon Musk's so-called government efficiency team and those who support them. We have accepted the order to suppress the law.
The order issued by Judge Deborah L. Boardman of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Mr Musk's representatives will be described as a two-week audit as an audit of the Department of Education's student loan system while the lawsuit continues. It prevents you from doing what you are doing.
The judge wrote that the government had not convincingly argued that members of Musk's team needed to access such personal information in their job performance.
“DOGE affiliates are granted access to a system of records that includes some of the plaintiff's most sensitive data – Social Security number, date of birth, residential address, income and assets, citizenship status, disability The situation – and the continued access to this rock is a continuing personal information,” Judge Boardman wrote. “There is no reason to believe that access to this information will soon be terminated, as the government believes their access is appropriate.”
The American Federation of Teachers, a union representing more than 1.8 million educators, has been suing mask team members to keep them out of the department's data system. Their family.
“We brought this case to support people's privacy because when people provide financial and other personal information to the federal government, that is, their children go to college or get student loans. Because they are looking for that data to ensure financial aid to do so, group president Randy Weingarten said in a statement.
Last week, a judge in the related case refused to issue a restraining order restricting Musk's team, and the group that filed the lawsuit was clearly harmed by the student group who filed similar complaints having data. I discovered that it didn't show that. It was analyzed by Musk's affiliates.
However, the judge said that sensitive personal disclosure to Musk's team alone is a concrete injury in itself, despite hypothetical concerns such as the possibility of identity theft. I found it.
The lawyer who filed the suit asked the same detention to be placed in the Treasury Department, but the judge refused as a judge in another case had already blocked Musk's team from sensitive data. .
She believes that teachers' unions will win the lawsuit, and requires a restraining order until the education department can explain why Musk's team members were unable to analyze with the excluded data. It showed that there was. or edited confidential information.
