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

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The Trump administration's unprecedented efforts to aggregate the personal data of Americans is 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 argues that the Department of Ho

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