A leading data privacy group is suing the Trump administration’s new Department of Government Efficiency and other federal agencies over what the group claims is “the largest and most consequential data breach in U.S. history.”
The Electronic Privacy Information Center seeks to stop DOGE’s collection of data from millions of federal workers and members of the American public, including the sensitive personal information of tens of millions of US citizens. In addition to DOGE, the group’s lawsuit targets the US Office of Personnel Management and its acting director Charles Ezell, and the Treasury Department and Secretary of the Treasury Scott ...