A federal judge has imposed restrictions on Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), limiting access to Social Security systems containing personal data. The ruling, issued by Judge Ellen Hollander, comes in response to concerns from labor unions and retirees about potential privacy violations and security risks. While DOGE can access redacted data with proper training, it must purge non-anonymized information and cannot alter Social Security software. Hollander emphasized the importance of privacy as a longstanding principle for the Social Security Administration.
The objective to address fraud, waste, mismanagement, and bloat is laudable, and one that the American public presumably applauds and supports.
For some 90 years, SSA has been guided by the foundational principle of an expectation of privacy with respect to its records.
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