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Court blocks DOGE access to sensitive personal data at Social Security Administration
CNBC ^ | 4/21/25 | Lorie Konish

Posted on 04/21/2025 11:56:07 AM PDT by CFW

A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction to block the Department of Government Efficiency from further access to sensitive personal information at the Social Security Administration.

The order blocks the agency from granting DOGE access to systems containing personally identifiable information including Social Security numbers, medical records, mental health records, tax information and family court records.

A federal judge has once again blocked Department of Government Efficiency staffers, operating inside the Social Security Administration, from accessing sensitive personal data of millions of Americans.

U.S. District Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander on Thursday granted a preliminary injunction to block the so-called DOGE from further accessing sensitive personal data stored by the agency. As a result, DOGE will have to comply with certain legal requirements when accessing SSA data. The order applies specifically to SSA employees who are working on the DOGE agenda.

The lawsuit was brought by the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees; the AFL-CIO; American Federation of Teachers and Alliance for Retired Americans.

They are represented by national legal organization Democracy Forward.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 95to0; dmaryland; doge; ellenhollander; ellenliptonhollander; fraud; hangthejudge; judgewatch; judicialsedition; noauthority; obamastooge; ss; waste
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So it appears that if a federal employee is trying to stop fraud and waste in an agency, then they aren't allowed access to info pertaining to that fraud and waste. This is at the same time as economists are constantly telling us SS will run out of funds in 5 to 7 years.

Also, a President has no control over the executive branch of the federal government if his last name is "Trump".

BTW, I'm sure "Democracy Forward" equals "Soros".

1 posted on 04/21/2025 11:56:07 AM PDT by CFW
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Musk has already said the data he’s analyzing does not contain personal identifiers. Unless he’s lying this is a non-issue.


2 posted on 04/21/2025 11:59:04 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: CFW

But of course.


3 posted on 04/21/2025 12:01:26 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: CFW
The Alliance for Retired Americans (ARA) is a 501(c) of retired trade union members affiliated with the AFL-CIO, which founded it in 2001. The group's membership also includes non-union, community-based activists.

More Communists attacking the Trump administration.

4 posted on 04/21/2025 12:02:47 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Burma Shave)
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To: VeniVidiVici

This is just silly season.

DOGE has all the data they need at this point.


5 posted on 04/21/2025 12:03:39 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: packagingguy

It has always been a nonissue. DOGE is not interested in granny’s medical record. They are interested in the disability payments going to illegal aliens and dead people.


6 posted on 04/21/2025 12:04:51 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: CFW

She’s an Obama pick.


7 posted on 04/21/2025 12:05:40 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One w!as a cylindrical object)
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Why does the SSA have all that information in the first place? Disburse whatever money is left and shut the place down. It’s going broke anyway.


8 posted on 04/21/2025 12:08:24 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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Raw data ain’t personal-

Tagged ID’s, dollar amounts, dates, transaction details, don’t reveal sensitive personal data.

Patterns is what they are looking for.
Not your phookin’ name.


9 posted on 04/21/2025 12:09:35 PM PDT by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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More Communists attacking the Trump administration.

Exactly.

They are represented in court by Democracy Forward.

That's a cute little, make no mistake, twist of the communist banner Forward.

10 posted on 04/21/2025 12:10:36 PM PDT by frog in a pot (When AI starts checking the "I am not a robot" box, we're screwed. )
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She’s an Obama pick.

Only thing we needed to know. Obama judges are liars/corrupt/and incompetent. They should be thrown out just for being nominated by Obama.

They will always get everything wrong.

11 posted on 04/21/2025 12:10:41 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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The United States Digital Service was created by Obama to remedy the Obamacare website fiasco, and was granted access to all federal data systems.

ALL. FEDERAL. DATA. SYSTEMS.

Trump/Musk just repurposed it as United States DOGE Service to go after fraud, theft and abuse, but it still has access to all federal data systems.

ALL. FEDERAL. DATA. SYSTEMS.

And there is nothing they can do about it.

12 posted on 04/21/2025 12:11:36 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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Oh those judges. Doncha just love ‘em. Yessir.

We are heading for Us versus Them.


13 posted on 04/21/2025 12:12:25 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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Next: Donald Trump has been barred from anyone meeting him at the White House until the judge declares each plastic trash bag of meeting food refuse is of the proper thickness and meets environmental regulations.

Each day the judge will rule of the array of trash bags.


14 posted on 04/21/2025 12:14:34 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Texas Eagle

And another thing.....how come the irs doesn’t just send everybody an invoice if you owe them.


15 posted on 04/21/2025 12:20:29 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: CFW

Such irony...

The federal government holds sensitive, private information
on individual American citizens, but is unwilling to share
this information with an agency of the Federal government?


16 posted on 04/21/2025 12:28:40 PM PDT by T. Rustin Noone
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The administrative agency under which DOGE is acting has access to -all- data by law I believe.

Not to mention the fact that an employer must have access to all employee data.

The judge is full of it.

17 posted on 04/21/2025 12:31:34 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: rktman

Exactly! Assholes make me spend hours trying navigate their stupid exemptions and deductions and charts and formulas and all that bullshit or they make me spend 200 dollars to have someone else do that for me and then 6 months later they send me a letter saying I underpaid by 500 dollars or some damn thing. Well hell’s bells assholes. If you already know how much I owe, why do you make me jump through all those hoops?


18 posted on 04/21/2025 12:32:34 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To talk with an SSA agent in person, I had to call, wait on hold 40 minutes and was told I would get a text tomorrow with whatever date/time they decide. I received such text, but for a phone appointment, not in person, and it is in 8 weeks! But oh no, we cannot let anyone find the well expected fraud and griters stealing billions of dollars.


19 posted on 04/21/2025 12:42:44 PM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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“Well hell’s bells assholes. If you already know how much I owe, why do you make me jump through all those hoops?”

That’s a very good question! And consider yourself lucky if you’re paying $200 for tax preparation. 💲😕


20 posted on 04/21/2025 1:06:00 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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