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ICE is contracting with data brokers to gain access to personal information—including names, Social Security numbers, and ethnicity data—to identify and track unaccompanied minors. Civil rights advocates warn the practice violates privacy and potentially exposes vulnerable childr
ICE is contracting with data brokers to access personal information on unaccompanied minors, including names, Social Security numbers, and ethnicity data. The agency is using this information to identify and track children, with civil rights advocates warning the practice exposes vulnerable youth to privacy violations.
Data brokers sell information scraped from public records, financial transactions, and other commercial sources—it's not classified intelligence, just compiled personal details. But in ICE's hands, this information becomes a tracking tool for children. The concern isn't just privacy in the abstract; it's that unaccompanied minors lose the ability to exist in the country without ICE knowing their location, identity, and financial profile. Ethnicity data in particular raises the question of whether ethnicity is being used as a filter or sorting criterion.
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