Posted on 04/07/2025 6:28:57 PM PDT by Red Badger
Summary
* Majority of judges say privacy claims unlikely to succeed
* Dissenting judge fears letting 'genie out of the bottle'
* Lawsuit filed by five labor groups, six military veterans
April 7 (Reuters) - A divided federal appeals court on Monday put on hold an injunction that blocked Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency from accessing Americans' private data at the Treasury and Education departments and the Office of Personnel Management.
In a 2-1 vote, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stayed the March 24 preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman in Greenbelt, Maryland, while the government pursues its appeal.
The Richmond, Virginia-based appeals court separately voted 8-7 against taking up the matter "en banc," meaning all active judges would decide.
A dissenting judge warned that letting DOGE access personal information belonging to millions of Americans "lets the proverbial genie out of the bottle."
The appeals court set an expedited schedule for the appeal, and will hear oral arguments on May 5.
Five labor groups led by the American Federation of Teachers and six military veterans accused President Donald Trump's administration of violating federal privacy laws by letting Musk's team review Americans' sensitive personal data.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Obama created United States Digital Service to have access to all federal data systems.
Trump/Musk just repurposed it as United States DOGE Service, and there is nothing you can do about it.
Go pound sand...
“six military veterans”
WTF?!?
A REMINDER TO ALL:
EVERY SINGLE YEAR, MILLIONS OF AMERICANS GO TO WAL-MART OR SIMILAR LOCATIONS & ENTER AN OPEN CUBICLE & ENGAGE A TOTAL STRANGER TO “PREPARE THEIR INCOME TAX FORMS”.
YEAR AFTER YEAR ETC.
MANY MORE PEOPLE USE ONLINE SERVICES TO DO THE SAME TAX RETURNS.
ALL THE “DELICATE” PERSONAL DATA THAT YOU WILL EVER NEED IS INVOLVED IN THOSE TRANSACTIONS.
ALSO-—EVERY bank account/Medical provider/loan application/ mortgage application/payday loan application/ title loan application/ car rental form/ application to rent an apartment or house/ has those same pieces of information.
ALSO EVERY SINGLE EMPLOYER YOU HAVE EVER HAD-—EVERY ONE..
SURPRISE !!!!!!!!
IF you think your SOC SEC number is NOT out there in the wind-—YOU ARE SADLY MISTAKEN.
ALSO CREDIT CARD APPLICATIONS
Bingo. However, they will never admit Obama make a mistake.
Remember when Judges dictated to Biden what he could and could not do? Neither do I.
Questions I would ask these Judges.
This personal sensitive information;
WHY does the government have it and where do they keep it?
WHO has access to this information now ?
WHY is a team of auditors assigned by the President of the United States different than a GS-5 working in some obtuse government job entering data off IRS yearly filings ?
How come it takes the average citizen a year to get a lawsuit into court, and it only takes 1 second for these lawsuits concerning DOGE to gather litigants, have them file complaints, have a judge review the complaint, have the judge file a TRO ?
Sure. Richest man in the world will be sending junk mail to all these SSI recipients. He’s rubbing his hands together right now, and laughing evilly, in between launching rockets and designing cars./s
An IRS contracted leaked return data on 405,427 tax payers, including Trump and Elon Musk,to the NY Times and ProPublica.
There is already no security or privacy.
They can’t blame that on Trump, Elon Musk, or even conservatives generally, so they’re sticking with fear-mongering about something that hasn’t happened, rather than something that has but can’t be blamed on their hate parade members.
Looking at my military retirement account happens constantly, as nearly as I can tell. SocSecurity looks, Ohio looks, Fed looks, military looks, medicare looks, pharmacies look... a host of entitities look.
So, pretending that the bureaucracy doesn’t look is a ridiculous assertion. Potus wants to know that a retiree isn’t dead. Seems reasonable to me.
We already know that crimes have been committed, including fraud & waste.
since when is it illegal to hire experts to do a forensic search for evidence ?
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