Supreme Court allows DOGE to access Social Security data The dispute concerns efforts by the Department of Government Efficiency, largely led by Elon Musk, to access sensitive data, including Social Security numbers.

There is no privacy in a police state. "That decision allows the Trump administration to, for now, shield DOGE from freedom of information requests seeking thousands of pages of material." #NoHIPAA #NoFOIA
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Firing of FOIA officers leaves experts worried about public records access under Trump - Poynter ‘Anytime that whole FOIA offices are getting fired, it portends terrible things’

Staff at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) who are responsible for responding to Freedom of Information (FOIA) requests at OPM has been fired by Trump/Musk. bit.ly/4ied1l3 #NoFOIA, #FirstAmendment, #OPM-FOIAfirings, #Trump-Musk, #PressSuppression, #lawsuits, #Poynter, #AngelaFu, #journalism

Firing of FOIA officers leaves experts worried about public records access under Trump - Poynter ‘Anytime that whole FOIA offices are getting fired, it portends terrible things’

Staff at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) who are responsible for responding to Freedom of Information (FOIA) requests at OPM has been fired by Trump/Musk. bit.ly/4ied1l3 #NoFOIA, #FirstAmendment, #OPM-FOIAfirings, #Trump-Musk, #PressSuppression, #lawsuits, #Poynter, #AngelaFu, #journalism

Back from a week in #noFOIA (but otherwise lovely) Puerto Rico. Time for #FOIA & #SunshineWeek!

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#FOIA (or really, #NoFOIA) https://x.com/tbridis/status/735521512229351424