A coalition of more than a dozen American states say they plan to put legal action in order to block the cost team of billionaire Elon Musk to access the payment systems of the sensitive federal government containing personal data on Americans.
In A brief declaration Shared by 13 Democratic prosecutors, including California, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland and New York, the Coalition declared that it was planning to file the trial “to defend our Constitution, our right to privacy and essential funding that individuals and communities at the national level count.
The coalition of states did not say when they planned to file the trial, in which the court, or what specific reparation that the general prosecutors sought. Techcrunch has contacted several governments of the American states to comment but did not hear say.
The planned trial occurs a few days after the Musk team of young partners in the private sector of its various companies Access the best services and sets of data from the US governmentIncluding systems containing the personal information of millions of Americans who receive social security checks, income statements and other payments from the federal government. Many of these systems were historically limited to some departmental career employees, given the sensitivity of the data.
Musk and his team, known as Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGENow control the US Treasury, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Health and Social Services and several other key federal agencies. Senior Democrats have called Musk’s access A risk to national securityCiting conflicts on its vast commercial transactions in China.
Musk, the richest man in the world, has a clear value of more than $ 400 billion.
Although the United States does not provide national data protection to Americans, American states have long established laws that require data protection from its state residents – including at the level of the federal government.
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