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Citizen Data Privacy: Request for Information on Data Access

This document is a request from the House of Representatives for information regarding access to citizens' personal and financial data, including children's data, stored in government databases. It aims to verify if a new government agency's access to this data was lawful and if adequate privacy protections were in place. The goal is to clarify how these actions impact citizens' privacy and data security.
Key points
The request concerns access to data from the National Directory of New Hires (NDNH) and the Federal Parent Locator Service (FPLS), which contain employment, identity, and financial information.
The House of Representatives wants to know if access to this data by a new government agency, called the “Department of Government Efficiency,” complied with taxpayer and child privacy protection laws.
The document demands the disclosure of all documents, recordings, correspondence, and legal opinions related to this access, as well as information on data security measures and any personnel changes in the departments responsible for these databases.
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Additional Information
Of inquiry requesting the President and directing the Secretary of Health and Human Services to transmit, respectively, certain documents to the House of Representatives relating to the effect on taxpayer and child privacy of the seizure by the so-called "Department of Government Efficiency" of legally-protected identity and financial data stored in the National Directory of New Hires and the Federal Parent Locator Service.
Print number: HRES 314
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Process start date: 2025-04-09