After Medicaid officials improperly shared data about millions of people in January with immigration officials, ICE then shared that data with the data analytics firm Palantir, according to new court filings. Palantir operates an app called ELITE that is used by ICE agents to show the addresses of noncitizens who may be subject to deportation.

That revelation was made public in a motion filed Thursday by more than 20 Democratic attorneys general who sued the Trump administration last year over its data-sharing agreement between the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and ICE.

Palantir said in a statement to NPR that the dataset in question had been purged.

So, now the Gestapo has medical data on its current as well as its soon-to-be targets, and the intelligencia can now feed its surveillance and AI with our private data. Wonder how long until future employers will be able to access that data.

Palantir said in a statement to NPR that the dataset in question had been purged.

But only after they’d already integrated the information into their datasets.

edit now that I’ve gotten farther in the article:

ICE personnel deleted the file after it was discovered and it was not used for law enforcement purposes.

Lies.

a day later, the agency had done a broader search and discovered that half a dozen users still had a copy of the Jan. 7 dataset.

Oh, look, it wasn’t deleted after all …

he was not aware of any additional copies of the dataset, but said the recent searches have “highlighted technological difficulties of making a representation that every possible variation of the file has been searched for and located.” He added, “ICE will continue to make good faith efforts to delete any copies that may be found in the future.”

Translation: we’re still going to keep that data, and use it in our operations, we’re just setting up an excuse in case we get caught again.

the Department of Justice is asking the judge to expand his order to allow ICE to receive data on a broader category of noncitizens.

Evan after repeatedly proving that you can’t trust us with data, we want you to force people to give us more data!