USA Today reported Wednesday that a senior education official confirmed this week that Musk’s Dodge team was reviewing the agency’s work.
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WASHINGTON – College students in California filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Education on Friday, alleging that Elon Musk’s official performance team illegally accessed the agency’s secret students.
Of the University of California Student Association A case in DC Federal Court The Tech billionaire department accuses the government’s performance, or on the dodge, violating privacy laws and federal regulations, which infiltrate the computer system that has information about the financing of students.
Charges The cell from reporting In the Washington Post, the Task Force collected from the muscle has access to datases containing personal information from millions of students who receive federal financing. USA Today has not confirmed the post reporting.
USA Today reported on Wednesday that a senior education official confirmed at a meeting this week that Musk’s Dodge team was reviewing the works of the agency, according to two persons.
A spokesman for the Department of Education said the agency does not comment on the pending legalism and did not answer questions about Dodge’s involvement in his work.
Under the legalization, an attempt has been made to prevent the DOGE team from seeing the department’s sensitive education data. Aditi Haryaran, president of the University of California Student Association, said in a statement on Friday that students from all over the country did not agree to “share our personal information with a unintended and unpredictable institution.”
“When students apply for financial assistance, enter their social security numbers on an application, or if they are willing to borrow a federal loan, they are trusting that their information will be safe,” Haryarn said. “The issuance of personal data of student lenders is incredible by our government, and we hope that the courts will quickly hold the education department accountable.”
On Thursday, a Democrat, a Democrat, a Virginia, Bobby Scott, called on the Government Accountability Office, an extraordinary government care office, to investigate the DOGE’s actions in several federal agencies, including the Education Department. The Congressman asked the government’s watchdog to “immediately review” the security of the agency’s IT system. A Group of Democratic Senators A letter was also sent to Acting Secretary Dennis Carter on Thursday, calling for more information about the situation.
The Government Accountability Office on Friday confirmed that it had received a request for a Scott investigation.
Zachary Sharmel is an educational reporter for USA Today. You can reach it by email at Zschermele@usatoday.com. Follow this on X @Zachameel and Bluesky on @zachschermele.bsky.social.
