U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander issued a preliminary injunction on access to unredacted data.
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U.S.DistrictJudgeEllenHollanderissuedapreliminaryinjunctiononaccesstounredacteddata.
AjudgeonApril17restrictedtheDepartmentofGovernmentEfficiency(DOGE)fromaccessingunredactedSocialSecuritydata,rulinginfavoroflaborunionsandretireeswhosuedthedepartment.
U.S.DistrictJudgeEllenHollander’spreliminaryinjunctionbarstheSocialSecurityAdministration(SSA)fromgrantingDOGEemployeesandspecialWhiteHouseemployeeElonMuskaccesstoanyrecordscontainingpersonallyidentifiableinformationsuchasaddresses.ItalsoordersMusk,DOGE,andDOGE’saffiliatestodeleteallnon-anonymizeddatatheyhaveintheirpossessionfromanySocialSecuritysystems.
Theinjunctionissettoremaininplaceasthecaseproceeds,absentanorderfromanappealscourt.Hollanderpreviouslyenteredatemporaryrestrainingorderthatusessimilarlanguage;theinjunctionsupersedesit.
Inamemorandumexplainingherdecision,whichwashandeddownhoursafterahearinginfederalcourtinMaryland,Hollandersaidt
