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From the NY Times: ...Earlier last week, the Education Department agreed in a joint stipulation to bar anyone detailed there after Jan. 19 from entering many of its databases until Monday, including its National Student Loan Data System.

Lawyers for the Trump administration had argued that whatever Mr. Musk’s goals may be in scrutinizing the department’s data, students who had turned over their information for a loan had no right to prevent their information from being reanalyzed.

“I think it could very well be the case that folks, when they submit a FAFSA application, do not have those sorts of concrete expectations in mind,” said Simon Jerome, a lawyer from the Justice Department. “I also don’t think that the Privacy Act offers them a way into federal court to micromanage the executive branch’s operation.”

Full story at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/us/politics/doge-education-department-data.html.