Judge limits Trump’s DOGE access to OPM databases citing privacy concerns

A federal judge restricted the arrival of the Ministry of government to federal databases, citing “the violation of law and trust.”

Under the US Federation of Government Employees, a group of current and former federal government employees and their unions in February sued the OPM and Doug Affairs Office for the alleged “violation of privacy”.

The American boycott judge gave Dennis Cote from the southern province of New York requesting the plaintiffs on April 25 for a preliminary judicial order on Monday, but he said that the scope of the Zerian order would be dealt with separately.

“After President Trump is inaugurated, OPM has given wide access to many of these systems to a group of individuals associated with government efficiency management (” “DOGE”), although there is no reliable need for this arrival. Thus, OPM violated the law and overcoming the applicable cybersecurity practices, “Cote wrote in the opinion of 99 pages on Monday.

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“In short, OPM records are in mind related to the most special affairs of the prosecutors,” Al -Rai says. “It includes social security numbers, health care information, banking information and information about family members. For some people, the OPM systems can be detected to be subjected to danger.”

Cotts, one of those appointed to President Bill Clinton, said that the prosecutors “showed that they are entitled to” a preliminary judicial order, “will stop revealing OPM records for individuals associated with Doge and require the destruction of any copies of the personal information obtained through this disclosure.”

“Prosecutors have shown that the defendants have revealed OPM records for individuals who have no legal right to reach these records,” Kots wrote. “By doing this, the defendants violated the privacy law and left the standards of cybersecurity that are forced to follow. This was a violation of the law and trust. Tens of millions of Americans rely on the government to protect the records that reveal their most private and sensitive affairs.”

The judge also criticized the Trump administration’s treatment with OPM records.

“The government could have recognized that in its impulsion to make the mistakes of a new president, the mistakes were made and its head,” Kut said, “It was not so.” It was not. ” “The government has defended this lawsuit by repeating the talisman repeatedly that committed to all the procedures and guarantees in force.

In a hearing in May, the lawyers of the Ministry of Justice said that any preliminary judicial order should include exceptions for high -level OPM officials, and pointed to how a separate judge has returned to the initial restrictions that were placed on Doge Access to the Treasury Records in February as long as the DOGE employees have appropriate training and training, according to the news network FEDERAL.

Judge Dennis Louise Cote during a discussion episode at the annual American Lawyers’ meeting to combat monopoly in Washington, DC, on April 2, 2025. (Drew anger/AFP via Getty Images)

Lawyers of the Ministry of Justice submitted a separate proposal in the case on Friday, pointing to the last decision of the Supreme Court related to the Doge Access to Social Offline (SSA).

The future of Dog is still not certain amid rock public repercussions between its former leader, artistic billionaire Elon Musk, and President Donald Trump, although both men said previously that they wanted to make a waste scheme entity.

The Supreme Court handed over the Trump administration on Friday in cases involved in Doug, including granting it access to social security systems that contain personal data on millions of Americans. The three liberal judges opposed in both cases.

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Judges also curb separately in the search for transparency in Doug.

In one case, the Supreme Court suspended an order from a judge in the state of Maryland, which restricts the team’s arrival to SSA under federal privacy laws.

The Trump administration says that Doug needs to reach its mission of targeting waste in the federal government. Musk focused on social security as an alleged misery for fraud. The businessman described it as the “Ponzi scheme” and insisted that reducing waste in the program is an important way to reduce government spending.

The White House on June 3, 2025, in Washington, DC (Kevin Carter/Getty Emima)

But the American boycott judge, Eileen Hollande in Maryland, found that Doug’s social security efforts were up to a “hunting journey” based on “more than just doubt” in fraud, and allowing unrestricted access endangered the Americans of the Americans.

Its ruling allowed access to unknown data for employees who underwent training and verification of the background, or wider access to those who detailed a specific need.

The Trump administration said Duji cannot actively work with these restrictions.

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The American Attorney General, Dr. John Sawyer is also an example of federal judges who exceed their authority and try to perform an executive operation for executive operation.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.