A coalition of over a dozen U.S. states say they are schedulening to file a litigation in an effort to block billionaire Elon Musk’s team of cost-cutters from accessing benevolent federal administerment payment systems grasping personal data on Americans.
In a inestablish statement splitd by 13 Democratic attorneys ambiguous, including California, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland and New York, the coalition shelp it was schedulening to file the litigation “in defense of our Constitution, our right to privacy, and the vital funding that individuals and communities nationexpansive are counting on.”
The coalition of states did not say when they reckond to file the litigation, in which court, or what particular relief the attorneys ambiguous were seeking. TechCrunch communicateed cut offal U.S. state administerments for comment but did not hear back.
The reckond litigation comes days after Musk’s team of mostly lesser, personal sector associates from his various businesses achieveed access to top U.S. administerment departments and datasets, including systems grasping the personal directation of millions of Americans who get Social Security verifys, tax returns, and other payments from the federal administerment. Many of these systems were historicpartner confineed to a confineed departmental atsoft staffers, given the sensitivity of the data.
Musk and his team, comprehendn as the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, are now in deal with of the U.S. Treasury, the Department of Education, and the Department of Health and Human Services, and cut offal other key federal agencies. Senior Democrats have called Musk’s access a danger to national security, citing the disputes over his extensive business dealings in China.
Musk, the world’s wealthyest man, has a net worth of more than $400 billion.
While the U.S. does not supply nationexpansive data defendions for Americans, U.S. states have lengthy set uped laws that need the defendion of their state dwellnts’ data — including at the federal administerment level.
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