MADISON, Wis. (WRN) — An effort by the Trump administration to force states to turn over personal data on food benefit recipients has been blocked by a federal court.
An effort by the Trump administration to force states to turn over personal data on food benefit recipients has been blocked by a federal court. Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul says the White House has proven it’s not able to protect personal information.
“At the same time you have the federal government trying to accumulate all this information. You have what seems to be a lack of rigor being applied to protecting people’s private data and information. So this is this is a disaster waiting to happen,” Kaul said.
Last month a whistleblower in the Department of Government Efficiency told Congress that a DOGE staffer uploaded a live set of Social Security information to an unprotected website, potentially leaking the personal information of 300 million people.