Baptist News Global: Trump appeals to Supreme Court to control voter database
The Trump administration has appealed to the Supreme Court seeking control over a federal voter database, a move that has drawn legal challenges from voting rights organizations, privacy advocates including EPIC, and individual plaintiffs represented by several civil liberties groups.
Why this matters: A federal voter database holds personal information on millions of Americans who had no real choice but to hand it over to register to vote. Who controls that data, and what they can do with it, matters. Shifting control to the executive branch without clear limits means voter information could be used in ways voters never anticipated. The groups fighting this are not fringe actors. When EPIC and voting rights organizations end up in the same lawsuit, the privacy stakes are probably serious.
Who should care: General readers · Privacy officers · Policy
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