Judge Limits DOGE’s Grubby Hands From Grabbing Social Security Administration Data

Elon Musk and company’s apparent desire to suck up as much personal information as they can about Americans has hit another snag. U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander issued a preliminary injunction that will at least temporarily prevent staffers from the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing sensitive data on millions of Americans while working within the Social Security Administration. The ruling, which comes in response to a lawsuit filed by several unions and groups of retirees in Maryland, follows a previous temporary restraining order granted by Hollander questioned why DOGE would need to access personally identifiable information (PII) as part of its work to allegedly identify fraud and waste within the agency. The injunction, which comes several weeks after the initial intervention, was issued because DOGE has not explained why the SSA should provide them access to PII. “For some 90 years, SSA has been guided by the foundational principle of an expectation of priv ... Read full article.