The US Department of Agriculture will hold off on its demand for personal data on participants in the Supplemental Nutrition ...

Privacy and hunger relief groups and a handful of people receiving food assistance benefits are suing the federal government ...

The attorneys behind the lawsuit warn the USDA's demand for SNAP data could set a dangerous precedent. States could become "the new battleground in the fight against DOGE's oversteps into the ...

The lawsuit filed in Washington, D.C., on Thursday says the U.S. Department of Agriculture violated federal privacy laws when it ordered states and vendors to turn over five years of data about ...

according to the lawsuit. Other states like Iowa plan to turn over the information, the plaintiffs say. They want a judge to declare the data collection unlawful, to order the USDA to destroy any ...