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

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

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

The bill guts the SNAP program to increase support ... Farm Service Agency, USDA Rural Development, and Farmers.gov. Listed in the lawsuit are several examples of purged data sets that farmers rely on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...