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

DOGE’s sweeping access to federal databases raises alarming questions about privacy violations and this administration’s troubling disregard for laws and accountability.

Protesters gather outside of the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building headquarters of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management on February 03, 2025 in Washington, DC. The group of federal employees and ...

And these lawsuits have focused on one particular legal avenue, a 50-year-old law called the Privacy Act of 1974. With us to talk about that law is Danielle Citron.

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 ...