Documents released in response to... FOIA requests show that the legislative proposal for “automatic” draft registration was drafted during the Biden Administration.... {B}oth support and opposition to Selective Service has been and remains bipartisan.

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The {Selective Service System (SSS)} is a tiny agency being given unprecedented authority to demand access to data from all other Federal agencies. The attempt to register potential draftees “automatically” will be a large, complex exercise in data collection, data sharing, and data matching between the SSS and other agencies.

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The Privacy Act of 1974 requires each Federal agency to publish a notice in the Federal Register (with an opportunity for public comment) including specific information about each of system of records about U.S. citizens or residents. ... “Automatic” registration will require new sources of registration data from other agencies and therefore a revised Privacy Act notice.

Even before {going through the required rule-making process}, the SSS gave DOGE access to the registration database in early 2025, and in late 2025 proposed sharing its registration data with more other agencies for immigration enforcement and other purposes.