A federal judge temporarily vetoed Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) – that the tycoon is in charge – access to the personal information of Americans in the systems of the Social Security Administration.
Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander, from the Maryland district court, asked Doge employees to eliminate any identifiable personal information that they have and that has not been anonymized.
The judge also forbade them to install software in social security devices and ordered them to eliminate any technological support that they had installed since the beginning of the second administration of Donald Trump on January 20.
The order is related to the concession to 10 people affiliated with the Doge of access without restrictions to said records of millions of Americans.
The information contained in these records includes social security numbers, medical history and personal health, fiscal information and driving license, bank accounts data, income history, private and labor addresses, birth and marriage records and immigration and/or naturalization, among others.
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The plaintiffs were the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the US Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFL-CIO) and the Alliance for American Retirees (ARA).
In the opinion of the petitioners, staff without adequate training had had access to highly sensitive data.
The magistrate believes that the American population could well applaud and support the mission of the Executive to eradicate fraud and waste in federal agencies -in the extent to which this exists -but asks with what methods.
“The Doge team is essentially involved in an expedition of social security fishing in search of an epidemic of fraud, based on little more than a suspicion. It has started the search for the proverbial needle in the bird, without having any concrete knowledge that the needle is really,” said the judge.
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Lipton Hollander considered that the plaintiffs are likely to succeed in their argument that the action undertaken is “arbitrary and capricious” and therefore issued a temporary restriction order.
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