ICE is using a Palantir tool that uses Medicaid and other government data to stalk people for arrest. This is exactly the kind of data privacy abuse that EFF has been warning about.

EFF last summer asked a federal judge to block the federal government from using Medicaid data to identify and deport immigrants.

We also warned about the danger of the Trump administration consolidating all of the government’s information into a single searchable, AI-driven interface with help from Palantir, a company that has a shaky-at-best record on privacy and human rights.

Now we have the first evidence that our concerns have become reality.