{"id":18205,"date":"2025-03-20T21:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T20:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/judge-blocks-elon-musks-doge-from-accessing-social-security-records\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T21:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T20:38:10","slug":"judge-blocks-elon-musks-doge-from-accessing-social-security-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/judge-blocks-elon-musks-doge-from-accessing-social-security-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge blocks Elon Musk\u2019s Doge from accessing social security records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ellen Hollander calls Trump aide\u2019s hunt for supposed fraud a \u2018fishing expedition\u2019 in temporary restraining order<\/p>\n<p>A federal judge on Thursday blocked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a>\u2019s so-called \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge) from accessing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-social-security\">social security<\/a> records as part of its hunt under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> for fraud and waste, calling the effort a \u201cfishing expedition\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Ellen Hollander granted a <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321\/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.48.0.pdf\" title=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321\/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.48.0.pdf\">temporary restraining order<\/a> that prevents Social Security Administration (SSA) workers from allowing Doge to have access to records that contain personally identifiable information.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/mar\/20\/musk-doge-social-security\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/86f1f01b0ade61954adcbb3ed046507d7b13ebb5\/0_167_5472_3282\/master\/5472.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6085e3a0cf09ba55811ab8ceefdad7b1\" title=\"Judge blocks Elon Musk\u2019s Doge from accessing social security records\" \/>Ellen Hollander calls Trump aide\u2019s hunt for supposed fraud a \u2018fishing expedition\u2019 in temporary restraining order<br \/>\nA federal judge on Thursday blocked Elon Musk\u2019s so-called \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge) from accessing social security records as part of its hunt under Donald Trump for fraud and waste, calling the effort a \u201cfishing expedition\u201d.<br \/>\nJudge Ellen Hollander granted a temporary restraining order that prevents Social Security Administration (SSA) workers from allowing Doge to have access to records that contain personally identifiable information. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ellen Hollander calls Trump aide\u2019s hunt for supposed fraud a \u2018fishing expedition\u2019 in temporary restraining order A federal judge on Thursday blocked Elon Musk\u2019s so-called \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge) from accessing social security records as part of its hunt under Donald Trump for fraud and waste, calling the effort a \u201cfishing expedition\u201d. Judge Ellen &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/judge-blocks-elon-musks-doge-from-accessing-social-security-records\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Judge blocks Elon Musk\u2019s Doge from accessing social security records<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18205"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}