ICE Appears to Be Buying Immigrants’ Tax Identifiers from a Data Broker
Summary
ICE appears to be buying ITIN data for immigrants from a data broker, in a contract valued at about $9.97 million, raising privacy and legal concerns about data broker usage and court-order circumvention. The piece situates this within ongoing debates about government access to private data and prior data-sharing deals with IRS/ICE, citing Senator Wyden and related reporting.