Supreme Court Allows DOGE to Access Social Security Data
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday gave the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) a green light to access millions of Americans’ most sensitive data….
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, issued a blistering dissent, warning that the Court’s decision “creates grave privacy risks for millions of Americans.”
“The Government wants to give DOGE unfettered access to this personal, non-anonymized information right now before the courts have time to assess whether DOGE’s access is lawful,” Brown Jackson wrote. “But the Government fails to substantiate its stay request by showing that it or the public will suffer irreparable harm absent this Court’s intervention.”
The ruling allows DOGE immediate access to personal data, including Social Security numbers, medical histories and banking information — data protected under the Privacy Act of 1974.
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