Iowa Starting Line: Iowa to deliver SNAP recipient data to the federal government

This has raised alarms for privacy advocates who say this is government overreach. John Davisson is senior counsel and director of litigation at the nonprofit Electronic Privacy Information Center. He said the USDA’s order is reckless. 

“It is an unprecedented extension of the administration’s campaign to consolidate personal data,” Davisson told NPR. The Electronic Privacy Information Center and others have argued the handover of personal data violates the Privacy Act and Paperwork Reduction Act. 

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