The U.S. Department of Agriculture requested the collection of SNAP recipients' personal data, which was met with legal ...

The Trump administration has paused its demand for the personal data of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients ...

The federal government told states to turn over names, birthdates, Social Security numbers and other sensitive data about ...

In response to a federal lawsuit, the Agriculture Department said it would refrain, for now, from demanding that states turn ...

Privacy and hunger relief groups and a handful of people receiving food assistance benefits are suing the federal government ...

The attorneys behind the lawsuit warn the USDA's demand for SNAP data could set a dangerous precedent. States could become "the new battleground in the fight against DOGE's oversteps into the ...

The US Department of Agriculture will hold off on its demand for personal data on participants in the Supplemental Nutrition ...

The bill guts the SNAP program to increase support ... Farm Service Agency, USDA Rural Development, and Farmers.gov. Listed in the lawsuit are several examples of purged data sets that farmers rely on ...

States and their vendors keep sensitive data on many federally funded programs and benefits, such as for unemployment ...

The lawsuit filed in Washington, D.C., on Thursday says the U.S. Department of Agriculture violated federal privacy laws when it ordered states and vendors to turn over five years of data about ...