From The Guardian:
A US appeals court on Tuesday rejected a bid by a group of unions to block the Trump administration government downsizing team known as the “department of government efficiency” (Doge) from accessing sensitive data on Americans.
The Virginia-based fourth US circuit court of appeals in a 2-1 decision said the unions were unlikely to prevail on claims that Doge would violate federal privacy laws by accessing data at the US Department of Education, treasury department, and office of personnel management. ...
The decision reverses a temporary injunction issued by a federal judge in Maryland, which had been paused by the appeals court in April. ...
The fourth circuit on Tuesday said the unions that sued along with a group of military veterans had not shown how they would be injured by Doge accessing agencies’ computer systems. They also probably lacked legal standing to sue because that access is not a “final agency action” that can form the basis of a lawsuit, the court said.
A dissenting judge said it was prudent to temporarily block access to the data while the case plays out, and that the standard his colleagues had imposed on the plaintiffs was too high. ...
3 comments:
Can AI be far behind?
Okay cool. Well then, employees shouldn’t have to take privacy or ethics trainings anymore since none of that apparently matters.
Lacked legal standing? Notice how the courts love to punt the ball on many cases before them.
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