A lawsuit tries to block the Trump administration’s efforts to merge personal data

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaking at the Department of Homeland Security headquarters in January 2025. Pool/Getty Images

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The Trump administration’s unprecedented efforts to aggregate the personal data of Americans are facing a new legal challenge.

A class action federal lawsuit filed Tuesday argues the Trump administration’s actions that aggregated personal data on hundreds of millions of Americans from various federal agencies violated federal privacy laws and the U.S. Constitution, put sensitive data at risk of security breaches, and could lead to the disenfranchisement of eligible voters.

The suit

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