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

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

In response to a federal lawsuit, the Agriculture Department said it would refrain, for now, from demanding that states turn ...

A coalition of SNAP recipients and hunger, privacy and student ... into the letter." The lawsuit will continue. One of the plaintiffs' arguments is that the USDA's data request is "arbitrary ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture requested the collection of SNAP recipients' personal data, which was met with legal action.

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 ...

The federal government told states to turn over names, birthdates, Social Security numbers and other sensitive data about ...