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DOGE access to US Bureau of Fiscal Service data violates Privacy Act, unions say

By Mike Swift ( February 4, 2025, 21:56 GMT | Insight) -- The Trump Administration's grant of access to millions of Americans' personal data within the Bureau of the Fiscal Service to Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) violates the 1974 Privacy Act and other federal laws, federal employee unions said in filing a suit that asks a federal judge to block that access.Two federal employee unions and a group representing retired union employees have sued the US Treasury Department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service and other federal defendants, seeking to block the takeover of its computer system by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE....

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