Joseph Cox

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On the Media · ICE's Summer Spending Spree · 29 Jul 2026 podcast

The clear investigative database sold by Thomson Reuters collects all sorts of public and private data.

And when I say a public, that can be like stuff from court records.

It could be property information, corporate ownership, all of the sort of stuff that is technically public.

But if you were to investigate an entity or a business, you'd have to go and dig around potentially a little bit to go do it.

Then it has more private stuff, such as credit header information, not to get too technical, but this is sort of the bit at the top of your credit report.

So it's not how much credit you have or anything like that, but it's your name, it's your address, your email address, maybe a phone number, that sort of thing.

And Thomson Reuters and this Clear product, it isn't just about the data.

It's that it's sort of a single dashboard to link all of these pieces of information together.

So I can type in a name or a social security number or some sort of identifier, and I can then zoom in on that person.

I don't think you can get away with this in Europe.

Data collected by a company for one purpose is so often leveraged and sold and repurposed for another.

And the credit header stuff has actually been going on for years and years and years.

I've reported how bounty hunters...

are able to access that information.

Private investigators as well, they use it literally all the time.

Repo man as well.

Now, when ICE is obsessed with getting people's addresses, I thought it was worth digging specifically into how ICE is getting that information, which most people, as you say, when they go and open a credit card with any bank or financial institution, I don't think people think it's even going to leave the bank.

But it does leave the bank, and it goes to credit bureaus, and then it leaves them.

And then it ends up in the hands of a law enforcement agency, and specifically ICE, who can query it, they can search it, they can analyze it, all without a warrant, just because this is how privacy works in the United States.

There is no federal privacy law that would block this sort of thing.

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