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OPM sued over privacy concerns with new government-wide email system

Two federal employees have appealed to the Human Resources Management Bureau (OPM) to block the creation of a new e -mail distribution system. This is because the information is reported to the former staff to be directed to the current institution, Elon Musk.

suitIt is launched by the two anonymous federal government employees, alerts the federal workers and linked two events that promote privacy concerns.

This includes rare emails from OPM, which Hill reviewed last Thursday. The agency stated that it has been testing “new abilities” to reach all federal employees.

In the lawsuit, an anonymous Reddit post on Monday on Monday from a person who claims to be an OPM employee. A new server has been installed in the office after a career employee refused to set up direct communication to all federal employees.

According toPostingOPM Chief AMANDA Scales, a former employee of Musk's AI Company, has been given an instruction to share an e -mail.

Federal government agencies are separatedIt is instructed to send the scaleThere are lists of all employees who are still in the per year of probation, so it is easy to delete from the government.

According to a lawsuit, the actions violated the 2002 Electronic Government Law. This requires a privacy impact evaluation before promoting the creation of a database that saves information that can identify individuals.

Kel McLanahan, an executive director of national security counselors, a non -profit law firm, pointed out that OPM had previously hacked and is obliged to protect employee information.

“They did it for security reasons because they did it without any signs of how this was managed. Who believes that this server is safe. They can't do it because they don't.

OPM refused to comment on the lawsuit.

McClanahan pointed out that the “Record Notification System” is usually managed by each division and seems to be an effort to create a masterlist for federal government employees.

“I'm part of this reason, I think this is my own guess, and they put together all of these other databases and respond to everyone who received e -mails. He is trying to create it by telling him. “

The e -mail on Friday from OPM tested the employee to respond to the employee to respond to “Yes” and confirmed that Agency could reach.

The involvement of the scale is tapped to lead the department in the government efficiency (DOGE), the advisory group that focuses on reducing the size of federal labor and budget. Because it is.

DOGE and OPM are tapped to form a plan to reduce the size of the federal labor through improvement and exhaustion.

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