cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26738203
Text and links from Raskin’s site:
U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin is encouraging all U.S. citizens to join him this week in filing formal demands for access to their personal data obtained by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Elon Musk.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has issued an injunction commanding DOGE to comply with citizen requests under the Freedom of Information Act. This law encompasses the Federal Privacy Act of 1974, which entitles any citizen to access personal information held in any U.S. government records system. Please find a fillable Privacy Act request form HERE.
Citizens need only fill out the form and mail it in to DOGE. This newly recognized federal agency, which has been systematically accessing government computer data systems, now has an obligation to respond to specific information demands from any of the 340 million U.S. citizens who exercise their legal right to defend their privacy and establish the security of their private information.
Once you have mailed a Privacy Act Request to DOGE, please fill out the form HERE and we will stay in touch with additional details and updates as they become available.
I love the idea. I feel so sorry for the one person who is left in the department for FOIA requests.
Trump and Musk are going to respond to this effort by firing that person.
Seems like it would be a pretty easy job manning the shredder.
Why? It’s easy to respond to all requests with 💩
Even easier to just ignore them.
But then they might have to held accountable. If they just accidentally, preemptively set the mailbox quota to 16 kilobytes, though…
“What FOIA requests? All we have is this single spam email”
This is a great idea, and I don’t want to discourage anyone from doing this, but FYI, be very careful on filling out the second link (‘HERE’) with your contact information.
Be sure to check out that ‘Privacy Policy’ link at the bottom of the page. Your contact info is available to the government, and that’s usually public information that others can see/use.
Fuck this noise. Stand up for what you believe. It might be a negative outcome but that is how every change in history starts.
Mrs. Parks should have sat in the seat until they threatened her with the police.
Students Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Lee Scheuer, and William Shroeder should have protested until they hear the national guard was on the way.
We need to stand unitied against this threat!
He’s talking about signing up for the guy’s mailing list or whatever at the second link. I’m only going to do that FOIA request. I’m going to fill them out for my friends to sign and I’ll mail them. It’s totally legal to do this, as long as they sign. I would put them in a mail dropbox if you have more than one though just to be safe.
Just printed my forms out, let’s annoy some assholes.
Fill them out for friends and family! All you need is their signature then drop a stack into a USPS dropbox.
Wasn’t the entire FOIA office rif’d?
