A pair of whistleblowers believe the office skirted the law by not conducting a privacy impact assessment for an alleged “on-prem” server used to send mass emails to federal employees and store information from responses.

Two federal employees are suing the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to block the agency from creating a new email distribution system — an action that comes as the information will reportedly be directed to a former staffer to Elon Musk now at the agency.

The Office of Personnel Management is looking to open a direct line of communication to the federal workforce.

A lawsuit filed on behalf of two federal government employees alleges that President Donald Trump’s administration set up an email distribution system for the entire federal workforce but that the email system raises security concerns related to workers’ private data.

A lawsuit brought by two federal employees alleges that the Trump administration has set up an email distribution system for the entire federal workforce that raises security concerns for workers’ private data.