WASHINGTON—A federal judge in Washington declined to issue a temporary restraining order against the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) over its use of new, government-wide email servers.
The ruling, given at a hearing on Feb. 6, was made after two anonymous government employees, Jane Doe 1 and 2, filed a class action suit against OPM over the use of the outside servers, which they alleged were insecure.
The suit alleged that OPM violated the E-Government Act of 2002 because it did not conduct or submit a privacy impact assessment (PIA) before implementing the servers.
Employees first took note of the new system after receiving two test emails, preceded by a memo stating that they were legitimate, and not a phishing scam….