Judge punishes Musk’s Doge team from social security records

On Thursday, a federal judge issued a temporary injunction that Elon Musk’s so -called team has the government efficiency of Elon Musk from access to personally identifiable information from the social security management.

Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander accused Doge in a devastating judgment to launch a “fishing expedition” with the social security agency, and gave no reason why he had to access huge parts of the personal and private data of the Americans.

Hollander said that the “accused, the so -called experts of the Doge team” never identify a reason or articulate why Doge needs “unlimited access to SSAS, that has been uncovered by personal, confidential, sensitive and private information that have entrusted the millions of Americans to their government”.

The arrangement before the US district court in Baltimore blocks the social security authority, the incumbent commissioner Leland Dudek and Chief Information Officer Michael Russo as well as all relatives representatives and employees who work with you, from the granting of access to a system that contains personal data.

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According to the lawsuit, personally identifiable information is defined as information that can be used to identify a person itself or in combination with other information. This includes social security numbers, information data for medical providers, records of medical and mental health, payment documents for employers and employees, employee results, addresses, bank documents and tax information.

The judge also ordered the members of the Doge team members and affiliated companies to delete all unexistented personally identifiable information in their possession or control, which they have accessed directly or indirectly since January 20.

The lawsuit was collected by a coalition of unions and pensioners such as the American Federation of State, County and Municipal employees. The alliance for retired Americans and the American Federation of Teachers.

In an explanation, the deputy spokesman for the White House, Harrison Fields, Hollander as a “radical left” struck and accused them of “misused the system to try” to sabotage Trump’s agenda “.

“The president will continue to obtain all legal remedies to ensure that the will of the American people come into force,” said Fields.

“We will work on adhering to the court decision,” a spokesman for social insurance told CNBC by e -mail.

Hollander, who found that the connected companies hid their identity, wrote: “Ironically, the identity of this Doge -Affiliates was hidden because the accused are concerned that the disclosure would also penetrate their names of harassment and thus into their privacy.”

“The defense does not seem to share privacy for millions of Americans whose SSA records were made available to the Doge partners without their consent,” the judge wrote.

The judge also said that the government did not “try to explain why a tailor -made, measured, titrated approach is not suitable for the task”.

“Instead, the government only repeats its summoning to modernize and uncover the system,” wrote Hollander. “His method of doing this is synonymous with the beating of a fly with a shelter.”

The judge referred to the public reaction to the disclosure of the social security numbers of more than 400 former congress employees and other people with the publication of unspeaked files in connection with the murder of President John F. Kennedy Wies. This supports the expectation of privacy in relation to this personal data, she wrote.

The plaintiffs are “probably” successful in their arguments that the actions of DOGE are arbitrary and violate the law on data protection and the law on the administrative procedure, the judge said.

“We are grateful that the court took strong measures to protect every American’s personal data,” said Richard Fiesta, Managing Director of Alliance for Renttired Americans, a national organization for grass root providers, in an e -mail declaration. “The seniors must be able to trust the social security authority.

– Dan manganese and Kevin Breuninger from CNBC contributed to this report.