A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily barred the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing troves of sensitive personal data from federal agencies.

U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman ruled that the Department of Education (DOE) and its employees may not disclose to DOGE the personally identifying information of six Americans and the members of five union organizations who sued three agencies over DOGE’s access to their sensitive data.

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is similarly barred from disclosing the personal data of the plaintiffs with any OPM employee working “principally” on the DOGE agenda.

However, the same rule does not apply to the Department of Treasury, from which Boardman declined to banish DOGE. She wrote in a footnote that a different federal judge already granted a preliminary injunction effectuating the relief plaintiffs sought against Treasury.

“The Court finds that the plaintiffs have met their burden for the extraordinary relief they seek,” the judge wrote in a 33-page ruling.

The six Americans sued Treasury, DOE and OMP over DOGE’s access to personally identifiable information they gave the government while collecting veterans benefits, applying for student loans and working as........

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