In a sworn declaration, USDA official Shiela Corley said the agency has not collected SNAP recipient data after telling the ...

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

The lawsuit is set to move forward ... can require states to hand over sensitive data from SNAP recipients without first meeting federal privacy protections and public transparency requirements.

In new guidance issued earlier this month, the USDA told states they must turn over data to the agency, through their third-party payment processors, “including but not limited to” names ...

A new lawsuit filed Thursday says the U.S. Department of Agriculture's demand for sensitive data about millions of food assistance recipients violates federal privacy laws. Meanwhile some states ...

A new lawsuit filed Thursday says the U.S. Department of Agriculture's demand for sensitive data about millions of food assistance recipients violates federal privacy laws. Meanwhile some states are ...

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 ...