Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency hit by another privacy lawsuit with millions impacted

Elon Musk's newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has received yet another legal complaint about breaching the privacy of millions of Americans.

Privacy advocate group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed the lawsuit on Tuesday, February 11, 2025, alongside a coalition of privacy defenders, multiple federal employee unions, and individual federal employees.

The aim is to prevent DOGE from accessing the data stored by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and request the deletion of any information Musk's department has collected.

The EFF joins the wave of worried privacy experts and worker unions across the US filing lawsuits against the new government agency over supposedly illegal data access.

DOGE's "unlawful" access to data

The OPM dataset contains "extraordinarily sensitive" details about all federal workers and anyone who has ever applied for a federal job, an expert explains. These ...