This emergency call follows an access restriction of the team by a Maryland judge by virtue of federal laws on the protection of privacy.
According to court documents, social security has personal files on almost all of the country’s citizens, including school records, bank details, salary information and medical and mental health files for beneficiaries of invalidity services.
The government claims that the DOGE team needs access to target waste in the federal government. Elon Musk has focused her attention to social security, describing it as an alleged hearth of fraud, calling it “ponzi system” and insisting that the reduction in waste within the program is an important way to reduce public spending.
-The majority of the court of appeal refused to remove the blocking of access to the DOGE, despite ideological divisions. Conservative judges said there was no evidence that the team made a “targeted surveillance” or disclosed personal information.
The complaint was initially filed by a group of unions and retirees represented by the association Democracy Forward.
The decision of the federal judge Ellen Hollander, in Maryland, which blocked the Doge of Social Security systems allowed employees to access data exploded or devoid of any personally identifiable element.
