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Unions ask court to stop DOGE from accessing Social Security data of millions of Americans

A group of labor unions filed a motion for emergency relief in Maryland to prevent Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing sensitive Social Security data of millions of Americans.
The legal services group Democracy Forward filed the lawsuit against the Social Security Administration and its acting commissioner, Leland Dudek.
Tiffany Flick, a former senior official, stated that civil servants are trying to protect the data from DOGE, which has not clarified its reasons for wanting access.
Karianne Jones, a lawyer for the unions, expressed concerns about DOGE's scope of access to personal data, highlighting risks to privacy for millions.

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Los Angeles Times

Commentary: A Social Security insider describes DOGE's rampage at the agency and the threat to your benefits

How a DOGE team ran roughshod through the Social Security Administration, gaining access to personal data and putting benefit payments in jeopardy.

3 hours ago·Los Angeles, United States

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Cleveland

Don’t let your Social Security benefits be diverted for tax cuts for the wealthy

Social Security is under attack, make no mistake. Ignore the fairy-tale stories being told by the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress and watch closely what Elon Musk and his DOGE team are doing.They are systematically dismantling and disabling the Social Security Administration, so that its “failure” to function well, as it has for decades, will require privatization by powerful special interests intent on slowing, reducing and eli…

3 hours ago·Cleveland, United States

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Bloomberg

Musk Taps Private Equity Veterans to Aid DOGE at Social Security

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has sent three individuals with experience in private equity and finance to the Social Security Administration, highlighting the focus that President Donald Trump is putting on rooting out waste and fraud in the nation’s social insurance programs.

4 hours ago·United States

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The Independent

DOGE’s Social Security takeover risked data of Americans ‘leaking into wrong hands’

Tiffany Flick, a civil servant of 30 years, detailed the speed with which a DOGE associate was parachuted into the Social Security Administration to access sensitive data

7 hours ago·London, United Kingdom

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RollingStone

Social Security Insiders Warn Trump and Musk Could Break the Program

Former Social Security Administration Commissioner Martin O’Malley and agency employees say DOGE’s intrusion could mean seniors not getting checks.

7 hours ago·Los Angeles, United States

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emptywheel

Tom Cotton Does Nothing as OPM Hack Equivalent Happens in Plain Sight - emptywheel

Both WaPo and MuskWatch have written about the declaration that former acting Chief of Staff to the then-Acting Social Security Commissioner, Tiffany Flick, submitted in a union lawsuit against the Social Security Agency on Friday. To support a bid for a Temporary Restraining Order arguing, in part, that the way DOGE has handled Social Security data exposes the unions’ members to fraud, Flick described how DOGE boys were given rushed access to t…

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