The US Treasury Department and Office of Personnel Management can continue sharing Americans’ personal data with staff from the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency cost-cutting effort, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr. denied the Electronic Privacy Information Center’s request to block agencies’ disclosure of personally identifiable information, saying plaintiffs’ “speculative chain of events is insufficient to establish irreparable harm.” EPIC also failed to provide “concrete evidence” that the Trump administration “is actively misusing or even attempting to misuse their sensitive data,” Alston, appointed by President Donald Trump in 2019, wrote in his opinion.
The case ...