The Privacy Act of 1974 protects personal information collected across federal agencies. Privacy groups and attorneys are invoking it to block access to personal records by DOGE.

Across federal agencies, the government stores a lot of data on all of us. We're talking about addresses and Social Security numbers, for sure, but also information that could be even more ...

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