Medicaid officials illegally shared millions of individuals’ health data with ICE in January, and ICE subsequently passed that information to Palantir, which uses it in its ELITE app to locate non‑citizens for deportation. A court filing by over 20 Democratic attorneys general revealed the breach, prompting Judge Vince Chhabria to pause the CMS‑ICE data exchange after earlier rulings allowed limited sharing of immigrant details. The Justice Department later admitted that CMS inadvertently reshared the same massive dataset during a separate transfer, and ICE discovered copies remained on several users’ systems despite claims they had been deleted. A hearing in August will address which categories of non‑citizen data may be lawfully shared moving forward.
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