ACLU complains to the state for access to DOGE records

The US Union of Civil Liberation filed a federal petition against the United States Social Security (SSA) and the Ministry of Victims (VA) on Monday. In its petition, ACLU accuses agencies of violating the ACLU requests and subsequent requests for so -called state -of -the -art (DOGE) “actual effort or access to federal sensitive databases.

ACLU launched documents under the Federal Transparency Act, as Wired First reported, in response to reports that DOGE Alevan’s perpetrators seek access to personal information belonging to US citizens, including the US Treasury Department, which includes “millions of social security numbers, bank accounts.

Over the past few months, widespread reports by Wired and other media have exposed DOGE efforts to access and analyze sensitive data on federal employees, the general public and immigrants to the United States.

In his complaint, ACLU argues that DOGE’s access to highly sensitive information on American health and finance creates “acute concerns” due to “extraordinary injury” that may be due to any unauthorized use of those cases. According to the complaint, ACLU pushed SSA to accelerate the release of public records related to DOGE. A process is permitted to make urgent documents to inform people about government activities at the center of public discussions. The organization, including its other material, cited a letter from Senator Mark Warner, which listed the details of the unprecedented hideout activities that illustrate the activities of College.

ACLU says SSA rejected ACLU’s claim, but later ignored its efforts to appeal, the procedure that SSA needs to be under FOIA. ACLU claims that VA was even less accountable. This confirmation of the ACLU request in February and then stopped other communications.

“If DOGE has to make his way to our private data, he will force himself to our private life,” says Lauren Yu, a lawyer who represents ACLU in court. “Congress has obliged hard privacy for some reason, and Americans deserve to know who has access to social security numbers, their bank account information and their health records … Government players cannot continue their confidentiality while in our most sensitive records.”

According to the case, the petition is also aware of the public concern over the DOGE’s continued pressure on the implementation of artificial intelligence systems (AI), “which provides warnings about the potential of widespread monitoring and abuse of political motivation from that deep personal information.”

Earlier this month, Wired reported that a DOGE operator is trying to use an artificial intelligence tool to execute the Code in VA, which provides for approximately 10 million American veterans and their families, including health care and disabilities. The agency’s sources expressed concern about the rush to execute artificial intelligence, the operation failed to follow the normal procedures and threatened to bring our veterans’ access to the benefits they have gained.

“Granting dog access to VA data systems not only violates the federal law but also undermines the core of the VA mission to care for veterans, their families, caregivers and survivors,” said ACLU consultant Michel Froling, Michelle Frelling.

Last week, Wired reported that DOGE weaving the Social Security Department data, the Department of Security and the Internal Revenue Services that could create an unprecedented range of supervisory tools. ACLU’s initial record requests were partially raised by concerns, FoIA files on the use of computer matching programs that were capable of reference information about individuals using various government databases.

The government’s ability to authorize personal information using different agencies’ databases is fully regulated by the US Privacy Act. The law was amended in 1988 for agencies to deal with written agreements before participating in the computers, and agencies are required to calculate how such initiatives may affect individuals’ rights.

“The federal government cannot do accountability by ignoring our legal demands for transparency,” said Nathan Farid Weller, Deputy Director of Speech, Privacy and Technology.