The Trump administration has paused its demand for the personal data of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients ...

The federal government told states to turn over names, birthdates, Social Security numbers and other sensitive data about ...

Privacy and hunger relief groups and a handful of people receiving food assistance benefits are suing the federal government ...

States and their vendors keep sensitive data on many federally funded programs and benefits, such as for unemployment ...

The US Department of Agriculture will hold off on its demand for personal data on participants in the Supplemental Nutrition ...

Personal data being shared includes SNAP applications, enrollment history, cardholders' information and transaction history. Some SNAP participants and advocates are concerned about the legality of ...

While the USDA and its Office of Inspector General can audit state SNAP programs, participants' personal data typically remains ... are more than a dozen federal lawsuits at this point that ...

The company's email to states referred to USDA's "request for records regarding SNAP cardholder ... and accessing data is being litigated in more than a dozen federal lawsuits that contest DOGE's ...

The attorneys behind the lawsuit warn the USDA's demand for SNAP data could set a dangerous precedent. States could become "the new battleground in the fight against DOGE's oversteps into the ...

The lawsuit filed in Washington, D.C., on Thursday says the U.S. Department of Agriculture violated federal privacy laws when it ordered states and vendors to turn over five years of data about ...

according to the lawsuit. Other states like Iowa plan to turn over the information, the plaintiffs say. They want a judge to declare the data collection unlawful, to order the USDA to destroy any ...