Trump order on information sharing appears to have implications for DOGE and beyond

An executive order from President Trump directs federal agencies to dismantle barriers to sharing unclassified data across government and to gain broad access to state-held records, raising strong objections from civil liberties groups about privacy, surveillance, and mission creep. The order accelerates reviews of SORNs and classification policies, expands DOGE’s access to unemployment data, and follows a federal court’s restraining order blocking DOGE’s collection of sensitive SSA data; filings also cite irregular data-sharing practices, including sending an unencrypted PII database outside an agency.