The Supreme Court Lets an Overhauled Citizenship-Check Data System Stay in Use
The Supreme Court is allowing use of a data system that Trump officials overhauled, NPR reports. Two details give the order its weight: the system has erroneously flagged U.S. citizens, and a lower court found that it violated federal privacy protections. The errors are not hypothetical, and the privacy ruling stands as the reasoning the higher court has now declined to enforce against the system's use.
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The pairing is the story: a system that has wrongly flagged citizens is also one a court found violated federal privacy protections. Either fact alone would be a smaller problem than both together.
Wrongly flagging citizens and violating privacy law are distinct failures. Fixing one would not automatically fix the other, and treating them as one complaint conflates two different remedies.