Court Finds OPM Violated Privacy Act in DOGE Access to Employee Data
A federal judge ruled that the U.S. Office of Personnel Management violated the Privacy Act by granting Department of Government Efficiency personnel broad access to systems containing personally identifiable information on millions of current, former, and prospective federal workers. Remedies remain undecided, including whether extracted data must be deleted; the ruling raises practical privacy, access-control, and data-retention concerns for contractors supporting federal personnel systems.