By Collin Binkley
Washington (AP) – A unions coalition put a legal action on Monday asking a federal court to prevent the Elon Musk team from accessing private data to the Department of Education, the Treasury Department and the Staff management office.
The pursuit, led by the American teachers’ federation, alleges that the Trump administration has violated federal privacy laws when it has given access to the effectiveness of the Musk government to systems with personal information on Tens of millions of Americans without their consent. He was filed before the Maryland Federal Court.
It is the last of a wave of legal challenges with the growing influence of Musk on the federal agencies that he promised to cut or dismantle. A New York Federal Judge blocked the Musk team of a treasury department system on Saturday after 19 Democratic prosecutors have continued their confidentiality problems.
The rear costume warns of security risks for personal data that has been shared with the Musk team, including an education department system, information housing on more than 40 million Americans with Federal student loans. The database includes social security numbers, driving license numbers, domestic addresses and more.
Also on Monday, DOGE reduced around $ 900 million in education department contracts after concluding that they were a waste of money from taxpayers, said a spokesperson for the department. The cuts lasted 90 contracts at the Institute of Education Sciences, a research branch of the Federal Agency. The ministry did not immediately publish additional details.
The cuts will not affect the basic operations of the IES, including the NAEP examination, known as the Bulletin de la Nation, and the dashboard of the college, which provides data on the cost and the results of the universities American, said the ministry.
“The ministry is indeed one of the largest American banks – if there was a violation of this magnitude in the private sector, it would rightly be a national scandal,” said Randi Weingarten, president of AFT.
The trial accuses the Trump administration of submitting sensitive data for reasons beyond its planned use, allegedly violating the law on privacy. Instead of fulfilling the functions of the Federal Student Loan Program, the trial indicates that DOGE has accessed the data on loans “for destruction purposes” in the Department of Education.
President Donald Trump promised to close the education department and put his authority back to states and schools. Musk on its social media site X said on Friday that the department “does not exist”, responding to the Democrats at the Congress who were trying to visit the agency’s headquarters but were refused by security.
The trial requests a federal court to prevent the Musk team from accessing this data with cash systems and an OPM database with sensitive information on the 2.3 million federal employees. He also seeks the destruction of any file that has already been disclosed.
“Steam in sensitive government file systems has led to a massive data violation which threatens to upset the way in which these critical systems are maintained and compromises the security and security of personal identification of the Americans across the country “, According to the trial.
One of the largest teachers’ unions in the country, AFT says that it represents 1.8 million workers in education, health care and government. People who have also joined the prosecution are six people with sensitive information stored in federal systems, including military veterans who have received federal student loans and other federal payments.
The trial is also supported by the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association, as well as the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
Friday, a separate trial on behalf of the University of California Student Association asked a Washington Federal Judge to stop Musk’s access to the Systems of the Department of Education. The complainants in this case filed an emergency prohibition order on Monday seeking to block the DOGE of sensitive data.
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