ICE is using a Palantir tool that uses Medicaid and other government data to stalk people for arrest,
@404mediaco404 Media reports. This is exactly the kind of data privacy abuse that EFF has been warning about. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/report-ice-using-palantir-tool-feeds-medicaid-data
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@404mediaco404 Media To enable this was the real job of D.O.G.E.
Musk & whatever the slimebag’s name was, tore down the firewalls between different government data storages (which were there for a reason), to make this kind of consolidation possible.
The ”efficiency” never materialised because it was a flat-out lie.
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