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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Fatima Hussein and Lindsay Whitehurst

Unions ask court to stop DOGE from accessing Social Security data of millions of Americans

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A group of labor unions are asking a federal court for an emergency order to stop Elon Musk 's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing the sensitive Social Security data of millions of Americans.

The motion for emergency relief was filed late Friday in federal court in Maryland by the legal services group Democracy Forward against the Social Security Administration and its acting commissioner, Leland Dudek. The unions want the court to block DOGE's access to the vast troves of personal data held by the agency.

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