The Electronic Frontier Foundation has requested a US federal court to block Elon Musk’s DOGE access to US Office of Personnel Management Data

Elon Musk has been tasked by President Donald Trump with slashing federal government spending and the federal employee headcount, an effort known as DOGE.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation and a coalition of privacy defenders filed a lawsuit in New York on February 11 asking a federal court to block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing the private information of millions of Americans that is stored by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM),

After OPM said workers weren’t required to respond, Musk said they’ll get another chance to reply or be fired.

The Office of Personnel Management has just limited access to certain government records on Elon Musk and his DOGE minions.

Stanford Law School professor Mark Lemley says Elon Musk's project violated the Privacy Act when it got into OPM's data.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said more than one million federal workers sent in their list of accomplishments.

Operatives working for Elon Musk’s DOGE appear to be editing the code of AutoRIF—software designed by the Defense Department that could assist in mass firings of federal workers, sources tell WIRED.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, had some harsh words for the way DOGE was operating, calling the email sent to federal workers “intimidation,” and saying that she’s hearing from federal workers who are being “treated with a level of disregard to their service and to their tenure.”

Elon Musk surveyed his followers on X — the platform he spent $44 billion to buy — asking whether federal employees should be required