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ICE accessing Medicaid data raises privacy, health concerns
ICE will use Medicaid data to "receive identity and location information on aliens," an agreement with the Health Department ...
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ICE having access to Medicaid patients’ personal data raises civil rights concerns
An agreement signed this week grants Immigration and Customs Enforcement access to personal data for the nation’s 79 million ...
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ICE Gets Sued for Privacy Concerns Over Immigrant Tracking
The privacy concerns stem from a reported lack of transparency in how immigrants' data are stored by BI Inc., the private company that was granted $2.2 billion to run alternative-to-detention ...
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Privacy Concerns Emerge as Medicaid Data Shared with ICE
The U.S. health department has provided ICE with access to the personal data of 79 million Medicaid enrollees to identify illegal immigrants, raising privacy concerns under HIPAA. This initiative is ...
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ICE gained access to confidential Medicaid data to target immigrant communities
The Trump administration gave ICE access to personal data of 79 million Medicaid beneficiaries, raising privacy and ...
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ICE database raises privacy concerns - Washington Examiner
The concerns are heightened, privacy advocates say, in light of a news report this month from The Nation, a self-described “progressive” publication, that ICE is tracking immigration policy ...
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ICE pursuing privacy approvals related to controversial phone location data
In response to the OIG report, the agency said ICE was working to finalize a draft geolocation services PIA and taking steps to mitigate privacy risk concerns. Then, in January, ICE told FedScoop it ...