A coalition of more than a dozen states of the United States says they plan to file a demand in an effort to block the team of multimillionaire cost cutters Elon Musk to access the payment systems of the Federal Delicate Government that contain personal data on the Americans.
In A brief statement Shared by 13 General Democratic prosecutors, including California, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland and New York, the coalition said it was planning to submit the demand “in defense of our Constitution, our right to privacy and essential financing that people and communities from country they are counting on. “
The Coalition of States did not say when they planned to file the claim, in which court, or what specific relief were the general prosecutors. Techcrunch contacted several United States state governments to comment, but did not receive an answer.
The planned demand occurs days after the Musk team of mostly young people from the private sector of their various businesses. He obtained access to the main departments and data sets of the US government.including systems that contain the personal information of millions of Americans who receive social security checks, tax statements and other payments of 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 the Government efficiency department, or dogeNow they have control of the United States Treasury, the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services, and several other key federal agencies. Superior Democrats have called Musk access A risk to national securityciting conflicts about their extensive businesses in China.
Musk, the richest man in the world, has a net worth of more than $ 400 billion.
Although the United States does not provide data protections nationwide for Americans, US states have established laws that require the protection of the data of their state residents, even at the level of the federal government.
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