A coalition of labor unions, led by the American Federation of Teachers, filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk and his team, DOGE, alleging that the Trump administration illegally shared sensitive personal data with them. The lawsuit seeks to halt Musk's access to Education Department systems and prevent further breaches of personal information held by federal agencies.
A coalition of labor unions filed a lawsuit Monday asking a federal court to stop Elon Musk ’s team from accessing sensitive government data, alleging the Trump administration violated federal privacy laws. The lawsuit, led by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), claims the Trump administration gave Musk’s team, known as DOGE , access to systems containing personal information on tens of millions of Americans without their consent.
This information includes Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, home addresses, and more. The AFT warns of safety risks to personal data that has been shared with Musk’s team, particularly an Education Department system housing information on more than 40 million Americans with federal student loans. “The Department is effectively one of America’s biggest banks — if there was a breach of this magnitude in the private sector, it would rightly be a national scandal,” said Randi Weingarten, president of the AFT. The lawsuit accuses the Trump administration of handing over sensitive data for reasons beyond its intended use, allegedly violating the Privacy Act. Instead of carrying out the functions of the federal student loan program, the lawsuit says DOGE has been accessing loan data “for purposes of destroying” the Education Department and turning over its authority to states and schools. Musk on his social media site X said Friday that the department “doesn’t exist,” responding to Democrats in Congress who attempted to visit the agency's headquarters but were turned away by security. The suit asks a federal court to stop Musk’s team from accessing that data along with Treasury systems and an OPM database with sensitive information on all 2.3 million federal employees. It also seeks the destruction of any records that were already disclosed. “Steamrolling into sensitive government record systems has led to a massive data breach that threatens to upend how these critical systems are maintained and compromises the safety and security of personal identifying information for Americans all across the country,” according to the suit. One of the nation’s largest teachers unions, the AFT says it represents 1.8 million workers in education, health care and government. Also joining the suit are six people with sensitive information stored in federal systems, including military veterans who received federal student loans and other federal benefit payments. The suit also is backed by the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association, and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. On Friday, a separate lawsuit on behalf of the University of California Student Association asked a federal judge in Washington to halt Musk's access to Education Department systems. The plaintiffs in that case filed for an emergency restraining order on Monday seeking to block DOGE from sensitive data
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