DOGE and the Privacy Act

Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have been accessing government computer data systems that hold the personal data of every American. They have been hiding behind evasions and misrepresentations to avoid coming clean to the American people about the data they are collecting and what they are doing with it.

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has issued an injunction commanding DOGE to comply with citizen requests under the Freedom of Information Act, which includes the Federal Privacy Act of 1974. The law allows every American to hold our government to account and to demand to know what data the government has about us.

I have submitted a request to DOGE to learn what data of mine they are holding. And as Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, I will continue to hold Elon Musk and DOGE to account and to defend the legal rights of all Americans to defend their privacy and establish the security of their private information.

View Jamie’s Privacy Act request to DOGE here.