John, Elon Musk and his minions are taking Americans’ private personal and financial data, in one of the biggest data hacks in U.S. history.

Now that he’s gone to the Department of Education, he has access to the critical personal data of millions of people—anyone who has taken out a student loan or filled out a student aid application (the Free Application for Federal Student Aid). That FAFSA data includes Social Security numbers, tax returns, information on personal assets and more.

We’ve sued to stop Musk from accessing Americans’ private information—particularly students, their families, educators, nurses and other student loan borrowers—and this week, we held a press conference demanding that our data be protected. We need to keep up the momentum.

Click here to tell your lawmakers: Get Elon Musk out of the Department of Education and out of our business!

Let’s be clear: We want bureaucracy to be more efficient. This isn’t that. Musk has access to your private personal and financial data. No one who voted for Trump thought he would give Musk permission to invade their privacy.

This is a breach of our fundamental freedoms. Right now, inside the Department of Education, the world’s richest man is rifling through 45 million people’s private student loan accounts, feeding the data into artificial intelligence, and downloading our most private data onto private personal servers.

We have to keep the pressure on. Click here and tell your lawmakers: Get Elon Musk out of the Department of Education and out of our business!

If there were a breach of this magnitude in the private sector, it would rightly be a national scandal. Social Security numbers, financial data, home addresses and personal demographic data for student borrowers and, in many instances, their parents, spouses or other family members, are being illegally vacuumed up by Musk.

This is outrageous and must be stopped. Take action here, and share the action with your friends and family so they can do the same.

In unity,
Randi Weingarten
AFT President

P.S.: You can watch our virtual press conference here. To read more about our lawsuit, click here.