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Demonstrators gather outside of the Office of Personnel Management in Washington, D.C. on February 7, 2025 to protest federal layoffs and demand the termination of Elon Musk from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). (Photo by Bryan Dozier / Middle East Images via AFP)

Judge denies OPM’s motion to dismiss DOGE ‘data disclosure’ case

“The complaint adequately pleads that the DOGE Defendants ‘plainly and openly crosses a congressionally drawn line in the sand,'" the judge wrote.

Apr 3, 2025 By Billy Mitchell

A sign in front of the entrance of the Security Administration’s main campus on March 19, 2025 in Woodlawn, Md. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

Judge blocks DOGE access to Social Security systems, calls for deletion of data

Under the order, all DOGE team members associated with the organization's work at SSA must disgorge and delete all non-anonymized personal information they obtained from SSA systems.

Mar 21, 2025 By Billy Mitchell

U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

Federal employees re-up lawsuit against OPM’s use of mass email server

The amended complaint also lists five additional pseudonymous plaintiffs who aren’t executive branch employees.

Feb 11, 2025 By Billy Mitchell

A view of the entrance of Department of Education headquarters on Jan. 29, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images)

Student group asks federal court to halt DOGE access to Education Department data

The complaint from the University of California Student Association asks the court to stop the agency from providing DOGE with unauthorized access to personal and financial information.

Feb 7, 2025 By Caroline Nihill

Protesters gather outside of the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building headquarters of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management on February 03, 2025 in Washington, DC. The group of federal employees and supporters are protesting against Elon Musk, tech billionaire and head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and his aids who have been given access to federal employee personal data and have allegedly locked out career civil servants from the OPM computer systems. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Plaintiffs call for temporary restraining order in OPM email server lawsuit

The new motion calls for the court to stop the operation of an alleged unauthorized commercial server OPM using to send mass emails to the entire federal…

Feb 4, 2025 By Billy Mitchell

A screenshot of the first OPM test email sent to employees across the federal government Jan. 24.

Lawsuit claims systems behind OPM governmentwide email blast are illegal, insecure

A pair of whistleblowers believe the office skirted the law by not conducting a privacy impact assessment for an alleged “on-prem” server used to send mass emails…

Jan 28, 2025 By Billy Mitchell