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Judge blocks three agencies from disclosing troves of sensitive personal data to DOGE (thehill.com)

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U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman barred the Department of Education (DOE), Department of the Treasury and Office of Personnel Management (OPM) from disclosing the personal identifying information of about 2 million plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging DOGE’s access to any of the advisory board’s affiliates.

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[-] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 5 points 6 days ago

Good in theory, but they’ve probably already stolen all the data, considering they had root access and wheeled in unauthorized hardware.

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