Elon Musk has been tasked by President Donald Trump with slashing federal government spending and the federal employee headcount, an effort known as DOGE.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation and a coalition of privacy defenders filed a lawsuit in New York on February 11 asking a federal court to block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing the private information of millions of Americans that is stored by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM),

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has requested a US federal court to block Elon Musk’s DOGE access to US Office of Personnel Management Data

After OPM said workers weren’t required to respond, Musk said they’ll get another chance to reply or be fired.

The Office of Personnel Management has just limited access to certain government records on Elon Musk and his DOGE minions.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said more than one million federal workers sent in their list of accomplishments.

Operatives working for Elon Musk’s DOGE appear to be editing the code of AutoRIF—software designed by the Defense Department that could assist in mass firings of federal workers, sources tell WIRED.

Stanford Law School professor Mark Lemley says Elon Musk's project violated the Privacy Act when it got into OPM's data.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, had some harsh words for the way DOGE was operating, calling the email sent to federal workers “intimidation,” and saying that she’s hearing from federal workers who are being “treated with a level of disregard to their service and to their tenure.”

This week, DOGE is in full focus after federal government staffers received an email from the Office of Personal Management (OPM), the federal government’s human resources (HR) agency, leaving many unsure how to respond.

The lawsuit, led by the American Federation of Teachers, is one of several seeking to bar federal agencies from sharing sensitive information with the Department of Government Efficiency.