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StateScoop: Advocacy groups urge SNAP providers to protect user data from Trump administration
May 13, 2025
Three advocacy groups on Tuesday urged financial providers that support the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to reject recent data access demands from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The groups — the Center for Democracy and Technology, Protect Democracy and the Electronic Privacy Information Center — sent a letter to Conduent State & Local Solutions, Fidelity Information Services and Solutran, calling on the electronics benefits vendors to refuse the federal government’s request for sensitive personal information of SNAP users. The data includes Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and benefit amounts.
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