The judge of the Federal District Court in Washington refused to prevent collaborators of Elon Musk from gaining access to the data systems of the Ministry of Education and found that the Student Association of the University of California, which sued to block entry, did not show that students were irreparably damaged in the process.
In a late order On Monday, Judge Randolph D. Moss wrote that lawyers representing students did not show that the sensitive data of students from the ministry databases was illegally distributed in a way that would justify an emergency restriction order that prohibits Musk’s team from the agency systems.
Judge Moss described potential damage to students as “completely guess”. He added that the action “does not provide any evidence, beyond total speculation that would allow the court to deduce” that the Ministry of Education or the team of Mr. Musk would “abuse or spread” this information.
Lawyers representing students asked the court to temporarily forbid Mr Musk’s team of projection through databases that contain identification information on students and their families, which lawyers have stated that the 1974 personal data protection Act has already occurred.
During the hearing on Friday, it seemed that Judge Moss was growing angry with the lack of clarity that the government could provide about the workers and their roles of the Ministry of Effective of the Government of Mr. Musk.
An office that is not an official department, but a small team located within the President’s executive office, seemed that the Ministry of Education had already caused Slash Financing for Education Research and proposed killing federal contracts By introducing new AI -controlled tools.
When Judge Moss pressed lawyers from the Ministry of Justice for details of the identity and activities of Mr. Musk’s team members, they repeatedly replied that these data were not certain.
Judge Moss stressed that some of Muska’s workers working in the school department also had also been undergoing data in other agencies that exceeded everything the US digital service was carried out, the office it replaced.
“As far as people who work for an entity that just stood up in the White House office a few weeks ago who went out in teams through government where individuals are not allocated to only one agency but more agencies and more agencies and go in and systematically They go through a huge amount of data in a way that is in the history of the executive branch – at the speed of lightning throughout the government – it seems slightly different from the usual transition, ”said Judge Moss.
“There is a unique lack of transparency,” he added.
At the beginning of last week, however, Judge Moss expressed skepticism that students should sue for court proceedings, because the extent in which they were damaged by any unauthorized access to their data remained unclear. It also seemed that people working for Mr. Musk’s team could be legally in a clear view of the department’s data systems, because some seemed to have been brought as higher employees in the educational department with all normal access that employees of the department would have.
On Monday on Monday, Judge Moss said he would consider the question of the next day, and later he would rule whether to allow the proceedings to proceed. The decision that students have Sue would open the discovery door through which both parties could present more specific evidence of the involvement of Mr. Musk’s activity.
Lawyers representing students on Friday claimed that when users send their data departments, for example, free request for federal student assistance, they promised a certain guarantee of how their data are used. They said that the students representing, objects to Mr. Musk’s team against the indiscriminate analysis of their data, especially in the case of an anonymous student who stated that they were from a family of mixed status with relatives who were not citizens.
“The government is a little playing a bit of a game and refuses to provide any real information here,” said Adam Pulver, lawyer in a group of public litigation.
It seems that Judge Moss has agreed that students applying for federal student loans in recent years cannot be expected to consider whether to submit their data to family members.
“You can imagine, I think there are people who are sick on the stomachs who think that there may be people in the White House who are sorting through information on the immigration state of their relatives,” he said.
In order to try to clarify the confusion of Musk’s operation and its recent activities within the department, the government began to file a statement last week from the higher officials of the department and Adam Ramada, a member of the Musk team.
Mr. Ramad, which filed on Thursday, said he was assigned to the Ministry of Education, starting on January 28 to audit contracts and grants. These efforts included an audit of the agency’s federal portfolio, Mr. Ramada said: “To ensure that it is, among other things, without fraud, duplication and incapable loan recipients.”
Pointed out on executive order President Trump signed on 20 January Repetition of American digital service as the Ministry of Effectiveness of the Government. The order ordered the agencies “to ensure that the USDS has full and quick access to all the unclassified records to agencies, software systems and IT systems.”
In a Supplementary statements Ramada, who was filed on Sunday, said he joined the team of six people who inspected the contracts and grants of the department and recommend cuts. He stressed that he and the others in the team completed various ethics and information security training to enter the agency databases, but acknowledged that one member of his team was not on Sunday.
On Friday, Judge Moss seemed uncomfortable with a wide approach that seemed that Musk employees had gained a vague goal of eliminating fraud and waste.
“It can basically cover something, right?” Asked at one point. “Scam, I understand -” Wasting, “you know, I suspect that if you ask Elon Muska, he would say that the whole Ministry of Education is” waste “.”
Judge Moss seemed to be pushed by the idea that Mr. Musk’s perch in the White House indicated that his team could freely require data from any federal agency within a larger political agenda.
“So what would happen if the White House’s political director required and obtained a tax return of every democratic candidate in the country?” Judge Moss asked at another point. “Nothing happens with that because it’s just – is it inside the government?”
At the beginning of last week of education department agreed in a common provision If you want to stop anyone who describes there after 19 January, from entering many of her databases to Monday, including the national student loan data system.
Trump’s lawyers claimed that whether Mr Musk’s goals were in all goals for control of the ministry data, students who turned their information about the loan had no right to prevent their information from recovering.
“I think it could be very good that people, when they are submitting the FAFSA application, do not mean such specific expectations,” said Simon Jerome, lawyer of the Ministry of Justice. “I also do not think that the Personal Data Protection Act offers them a way to the Federal Court to micromaniacs the operation of an executive branch.”
