Lawsuit alleges new Trump administration email system for federal employees raises privacy concerns

[jmbar2]

Source: CNN

A lawsuit brought by two federal employees alleges that the Trump administration has set up an email distribution system for the entire federal workforce that raises security concerns for workers’ private data.

The lawsuit accuses the US Office of Personnel Management – which handles many personnel operations for the federal government – of failing to do an assessment required by federal law to understand and mitigate any privacy risks in how the alleged new email system is collecting data of federal employees.

The new legal challenge comes as the Trump administration has launched a multi-front effort to overhaul how the federal workforce operates, including initiatives to weaken federal workforce protections and to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs, among other actions.

According to the new lawsuit, federal employees in recent days received emails from the email address [e-mail] that purported to be running tests for a new “distribution and response list.”

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/politics/federal-employees-email-system-privacy-concerns-lawsuit/index.html

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This lawsuit exposes that Heritage Foundation/Project 25 officials are implementing external organizational email systems that bypass the usual internal email systems.

Our government workers are being surveilled closely which makes their outcry all the more heroic.

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[underpants]

1. Hacking and privacy (restraining orders) were my first concerns when I first heard of this.

A list like this could be used to narrow a search for someone who’s left an abusive situation.

“Plugging in a new email service for the sole purpose of sending messages directly to every federal employee is an invitation to be hacked, and every employee out there needs to know how much of their data is at risk,” McClanahan said, adding that the system should be shut down “until OPM treats this data with the security it warrants.”

[jmbar2]

3. Yes - it's much more than just an organizational risk.

It opens up every government employee to extreme surveillance by Heritage/P25 goons. There is already an extensive government security system for monitoring "insider threats" that can and probably will be turned on government employees.

[underpants]

2. Also, reply all

The organization I work in has a little over 200 people and mass emails always are followed by secondary DO NOT REPLY ALL emails even if the initial email had it in red letters.

That would be a funny way to jam up the system.

[jmbar2]

4. I saw one comment on R...

They posted the email address and suggested that everyone reply-all, even people not in gov. .

Now I understand what they were doing... Thanks for explaining it to me.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. All your email are belong to us. . . . . nt

[joanbarnes]

6. BUT HER E-MAILS!