ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125M to Find Voter Fraud
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ICE will pay Thomson Reuters $125 million for personal data to investigate voter fraud.
The Department of Homeland Security plans to pay data broker Thomson Reuters $125 million for access to databases containing names, Social Security numbers, ethnicity, social media posts, and geolocation data. ICE will use this to investigate what it calls 'voters fraud' and immigration fraud. The document says Thomson Reuters can let ICE continuously monitor millions of people. The news follows a conspiracy-laden press conference by President Trump on election security and two fatal shootings by ICE agents in a week.
What commenters are saying
Commenters are deeply skeptical. Many see this as a repeat of previous investigations that found no evidence of widespread fraud, calling it a waste of money and a pretext for voter suppression. Some argue the legal framework is broken: the third-party doctrine lets the government buy data without a warrant, and companies like Thomson Reuters are complicit. A few note that California residents can request data deletion under CCPA, though supremacy clause concerns are raised. The thread splits between those who see it as performative and those who fear it will be used to disenfranchise voters.