Justice Department rejects claim of 'injury' by privacy advocates in election data case

The Justice Department's top lawyers are rejecting claims by privacy advocates that collection and handling of voter data by President Trump's election commission poses harm to both the digital rights group filing the case and to the general public, in a case that could determine the federal government's authority to set data management and security requirements for state election officials.

In some circumstances, Congress provides a particularized right to disclosure of information, and the violation of that statutorily conferred right...