"Whistleblowers have raised alarms about DOGE exfiltrating sensitive data from the National Labor Relations Board and storing sensitive Social Security data on a vulnerable cloud server. Trahan's blueprint offers 10 recommendations for how to amend the Privacy Act, informed by dozens of responses to a request for information she issued last spring. She's not the only lawmaker interested in overhauling the law: Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Ed Markey, D-Mass., have also introduced a bill to do so."
""Americans deserve to know that their Social Security number, tax information, health data, and employment records are handled responsibly," Trahan said in an email announcing the new report. "They deserve clear rules, strong safeguards, and meaningful accountability. And they deserve a government that puts their privacy first while also optimizing the efficient delivery of Americans' hard-earned benefits.""
Rep. Lori Trahan released a 68-page staff report presenting 10 recommendations to amend the Privacy Act of 1974. The proposal targets stronger limits on government use of sensitive personal data, improved transparency, enhanced enforcement, and updates to account for modern technology. The effort responds to lawsuits alleging the Department of Government Efficiency accessed agency data improperly and to whistleblower claims about exfiltration and insecure storage of Social Security information. Recommendations include expanding Privacy Act protections beyond U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents and creating clearer accountability for agency data practices. Parallel reform legislation has been introduced in the Senate.
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