Two unnamed federal employees filed a lawsuit against the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on Jan. 27 attempting to stop a new email service and alleging privacy violations.
Attorneys additionally filed the complaint in the name of anyone who received an email requesting a response to [email protected] from Jan. 23 to 27 and of all executive branch employees who did not receive an email about a system test.
It is unknown how many employees fit the complaint’s description out of the federal government’s civilian workforce of about 2.1 million.
The agency announced Jan. 23 that it would soon be testing its messaging systems to allow the government to send communications to all federal employees across departments and agencies using one email address….