More than 100 current and previous federal workers have sued Elon Musk and the Government Efficiency Department agency he directs for allegedly entry into highly sensitive personnel data without proper verification or authorization, according to a new federal process of raised on Tuesday.
Judicial proceedings were set up in the southern district of New York by the Frontier Electronic Foundation and other groups of intimacy on behalf of 103 workers and various government workers’ unions. Plaintiffs are looking for the HR leading government agency, the Personnel Management Office (OPM), to interrupt access to the DOGE and its agents.
“The OPM defendants were given to the Doge defendants and Doge-Many of whom are under 25 years of age and were until recently were employees of private ‘administrative’ musical companies in OPM computer systems without subjugating any Normal verification of national security of national security, ”the lawsuit reads.
Complaints name Elon Musk, Doge, OPM and current director of OPM Charles Ezell as defendants.
The lawsuit alleges that DOGE obtaining OPM registries violates the act of intimacy, which prohibits improper access to personal data, including in all federal agencies.
“The act of intimacy makes it illegal for the OPM defendants to submit access to millions of OPM personnel registers for the Doge defendants, who lack a legitimate and legitimate need for such approach,” the complaint claims . “No exemption from the act of intimacy includes access to DOGE defendants to data held by OPM.”
The lawsuit says DOGE agents were not government workers at the time they received access to OPM computer networks. He calls 19-year-old Doge worker Edward Coristine, who is reported to go with “big balls” online because he was fired by an internet security firm after an internal investigation into the data flow during his work.
The lawsuit also alleges that the Doze’s access to federal workers’ data could arouse harmful professional consequences for them, pointing out that Musk and President Trump have threatened that fire workers viewed as disobedient. The discovery of their financial data can also expose workers to hack from criminals and foreign actors, the complaint said.
The lawsuit comes amid the growing controversy over the DOGE approach to the government’s sensitive data as the agency begins to create mass vacations and other reforms throughout the federal government.
The lawsuit is focused on receiving an order to interrupt that approach, but this is only the “first phase” before a classroom lawsuit, according to Mark Lemley, one of the lawyers representing the plaintiffs, reported Wired.
Doge, OPM and representatives for Musk’s companies did not immediately respond to comment requests.
