The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is instructing agencies that they do not have to fire all federal employees still on ...

Anonymous federal employees filed a lawsuit alleging that the new email system could be placing their sensitive personal ...

The suit is based in part on a Reddit post from a person claiming to be an OPM employee, who claimed that a person walked into the OPM building and plugged in an unsecured email server to make it ...

Asking federal employees to reply to that email appears to have been a first step in OPM’s work to assemble a list of federal employee emails ahead of offering the “Fork in the Road” buyout ...

The two employees accuse OPM officials of deploying the new server — which is said to be “retaining information about every employee of the U.S. Executive Branch” or potentially doing so through ...

including employee information. During the Biden administration, OPM had explored capabilities to send individual emails to all employees in the federal government, but it was ultimately not ...

OPM declined to comment on the lawsuit. McClanahan noted that the emails appear to be an effort to create a master list of federal government employees, as “System of Records Notices” are ...

An attorney representing unnamed OPM employees asked a judge on Jan ... The PIA was not necessary since the system only deals with federal employee data, government lawyers said in a February ...

The complaint goes on to cite concerns allegedly raised by an anonymous OPM employee that were posted on the online forum Reddit Monday about how the email distribution system was set up.

Also cited in the suit is an anonymous Reddit post Monday from someone purporting to be an OPM employee, saying a new server was installed at their office after a career employee refused to set up a ...