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Our Privacy Act Lawsuit Against DOGE and OPM: Why a Judge Let It Move Forward
- hn_acker 2y agoSome context from a related article [1] by Cory Doctorow, who is an EFF Special Advisor, about why EFF's successfully proving standing in the DOGE/OPM lawsuits is a big deal: > Ironically, it's when governments violate our rights on a mass scale that standing is hardest to prove. Our Jewel case, over NSA spying, foundered because the US government argued that we couldn't prove our clients had been swept up by NSA surveillance because the details of that surveillance were officially still secret, even though Snowden had disclosed their working a decade earlier, and our client Mark Klein (RIP) had come forward with documents on illegal mass NSA spying in 2006!: > https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/effs-flagship-jewel-v-nsa-dragnet-spying-case-rejected-supreme-court https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/effs-flagship-jewel-v-... (I am not affiliated with the EFF. "Our" refers to the EFF.) [1] EFF's lawsuit against DOGE will go forward - https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/09/cases-and-controversy/ https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/09/cases-and-controversy/