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by mmwako 489 days ago
how is federal employees accessing federal data considered a data breach?
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> The Privacy Act [of 1974] makes it unlawful for OPM Defendants to hand over access to OPM's millions of personnel records to DOGE Defendants, who lack a lawful and legitimate need for such access," the lawsuit said. "No exception to the Privacy Act covers DOGE Defendants' access to records held by OPM
Isn't justifying need a walk in the park? "We've been asked by the president to downsize the federal government - so we need to know about who's in the federal government". Am I missing something?
The lawsuit alleges it is. That doesn't make it so.