Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is acquiring individuals' home addresses through a data supply chain that begins when they open a credit card. This personal information, initially provided to financial institutions, is then shared with credit bureaus like Experian and Equifax. These bureaus, in turn, provide credit header data to companies such as Thomson Reuters, which integrates it into its investigative product, CLEAR. ICE purchases access to CLEAR, enabling them to search for individuals' addresses without a warrant, and can further refine these searches using Palantir's ELITE system. Senator Ron Wyden and attorney Laura Rivera have criticized this practice as a privacy violation and an abuse of personal data, particularly for overpoliced communities, urging lawmakers to intervene. AI
IMPACT Highlights how data brokers and AI-powered tools can be used for surveillance, raising privacy concerns for individuals.
RANK_REASON Reporting on a government agency's acquisition of sensitive personal data through a complex, unregulated data supply chain. [lever_c_demoted from significant: ic=1 ai=0.4]
- 404 Media
- CLEAR
- Equifax
- Experian
- Just Futures Law
- Laura Rivera
- Palantir
- Ron Wyden
- Thomson Reuters
- TransUnion
- United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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