Officials let ICE access health data to locate migrants, alarming experts who warn of civil rights and health risks

Medicaid officials have reportedly made an agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) to allow agents to examine a database of Americans’ personal information – including home addresses, social security numbers and ethnicities.

The data sharing agreement will allow Ice to find “the location of aliens”, according to an agreement obtained by the Associated Press. Medicaid is the nation’s single largest health insurer, providing coverage for 79 million low-income, disabled and elderly people.

“This is about the weaponization of data, full stop,” said Pramila Jayapal, a Democratic US representative from Washington state, who has worked extensively on US healthcare, in a statement on social media.

  • LordCrom@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    I’ve been saying this forever…

    HIPAA Data is protected and private, until someone with power decides it isn’t.

    Never trust your data to anyone

    • r0ertel@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      …but I have nothing to hide.

      I’m so tired of hearing this and when you bring up that a Jewish person did not feel that they needed to hide their religion in 1933, they’ll say, "“that’s different.”