{"id":46640,"date":"2025-02-04T15:12:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T15:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/us-unions-sue-treasury-department-after-letting-musks-doge-access-personal-financial-information\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T15:12:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T15:12:59","slug":"us-unions-sue-treasury-department-after-letting-musks-doge-access-personal-financial-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/us-unions-sue-treasury-department-after-letting-musks-doge-access-personal-financial-information\/","title":{"rendered":"US unions sue Treasury Department after letting Musk\u2019s DOGE access personal financial information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>(Originally posted on : CoinJournal: Latest Crypto News, Altcoin News and Cryptocurrency Comparison )<\/b><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-site=\"CoinJournal\">\n<div class=\"post-article-image  -mt-24  mb-8  lg:-mt-32  rounded  overflow-hidden\" data-site=\"CoinJournal\">\n<picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/imagecache\/2022\/11\/1650716030802-f08b4c0a-3580-4d23-8882-1afc0fae118e-smartcrop-750x375.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\" media=\"(min-width: 750px)\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/imagecache\/2022\/11\/1650716030802-f08b4c0a-3580-4d23-8882-1afc0fae118e-smartcrop-363x181.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/imagecache\/2022\/11\/1650716030802-f08b4c0a-3580-4d23-8882-1afc0fae118e-smartcrop-750x375.jpg\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"(min-width: 750px)\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/imagecache\/2022\/11\/1650716030802-f08b4c0a-3580-4d23-8882-1afc0fae118e-smartcrop-363x181.jpg\" type=\"image\/jpeg\"\/>\n<\/picture>                    <\/div>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">The lawsuit claims DOGE has been given \u201cunlawful\u201d access to personal and financial information<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">The sensitive information includes names, addresses, bank details, social security numbers, birth dates, and email addresses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>US union groups have sued the US Treasury and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent for allowing Elon Musk\u2019s DOGE agency to access individuals\u2019 personal and financial information.<\/p>\n<p>The Alliance for Retired Americans, American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) filed the lawsuit in a Washington, DC federal court.<\/p>\n<p>All three groups are affiliated with the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), an umbrella group with over 50 unions representing over 12.5 million workers.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/docket\/69607077\/1\/alliance-for-retired-americans-v-bessent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit<\/a>, within a week of being sworn in, <a href=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/search\/Scott+Bessent\">Bessent<\/a> presented DOGE-affiliated individuals with \u201cunlawful ongoing, systematic, and continuous disclosure of personal and financial information\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit adds that <a href=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/search\/Elon+Musk\">Musk<\/a> and his team had previously sought to access the Bureau\u2019s records; however, they were rebuffed by a civil servant who has since been put on leave by Bessent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe scale of the intrusion into individuals\u2019 privacy is massive and unprecedented,\u201d the 19-page lawsuit reads. \u201cMillions of people cannot avoid engaging in financial transactions with the federal government and, therefore, cannot avoid having their sensitive personal and financial information maintained in government records.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sensitive information includes names, social security numbers, birth dates and birthplaces, home addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, and bank account information.<\/p>\n<h2>Lawsuits filed<\/h2>\n<p>Following President <a href=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/news\/bitcoin-breaks-75k-as-crypto-celebrates-donald-trump-election-win\/\">Donald Trump\u2019s election win in November<\/a>, Trump confirmed that Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy would lead <a href=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/search\/DOGE\">DOGE<\/a> to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/news\/trump-confirms-musk-and-ramaswamy-will-lead-doge-agency-to-drive-out-wasteful-spending\/\">dismantle government bureaucracy<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the DOGE agency, reportedly, had <a href=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/news\/elon-musks-doge-sued-after-trumps-inauguration\/\">three lawsuits filed against it<\/a> minutes after Trump was sworn in last month.<\/p>\n<p>In a 30-page lawsuit, public interest law firm National Security Counselors questioned the legality of DOGE.<\/p>\n<p>According to the complaint, DOGE violates the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), which requires advisory committees to follow certain rules, including allowing public involvement.<\/p>\n<p>National Security Counselors state that DOGE meets the requirements to be considered a \u201cfederal advisory committee.\u201d Yet, while similar agencies follow a \u201cfairly balanced\u201d representation, keep meeting records, and allow public involvement, as required by law, DOGE doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-meta\">\n<hr class=\"mb-6\"\/>\n<h6 class=\"text-3xl  mb-4  text-green-300\">Share this article<\/h6>\n<hr class=\"mb-6\"\/>\n<h6 class=\"text-3xl  mb-4  text-green-300\">Categories<\/h6>\n<hr class=\"mb-6\"\/>\n<h6 class=\"text-3xl  mb-4  text-green-300\">Tags<\/h6>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/news\/us-unions-sue-treasury-department-after-letting-musks-doge-access-personal-financial-information\/\">Source link <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally posted on : CoinJournal: Latest Crypto News, Altcoin News and Cryptocurrency Comparison ) The lawsuit claims DOGE has been given \u201cunlawful\u201d access to personal and financial information The sensitive information includes names, addresses, bank details, social security numbers, birth dates, and email addresses US union groups have sued the US Treasury and Treasury Secretary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3947362367,"featured_media":46641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3947362367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}