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ICE signs $125M surveillance data contract with Thomson Reuters after contested procurement

Public critic of predictive surveillance

Immigration and Customs Enforcement signed a five-year, $125 million data analytics contract with Thomson Reuters Special Services on September 17. The deal gives the agency access to the Clear database—property records, social media posts, and geolocation data—to monitor up to 1 million people and identify "potentially criminal and fraudulent behavior" before it happens.

Updated 2 hours ago

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"What most of the available research tells us is that you can't anywhere near consistently predict who is going to turn into a criminal. And any kind of software or AI that essentially encourages the fictitious belief that you can do that is a prescription for constitutional rights violations at scale."

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