Newly filed court documents have exposed that immigration officials shared sensitive Medicaid data — data they were not authorized to possess — with the private data analytics firm Palantir.
The revelation surfaced as part of an ongoing federal court case in which Democratic states are challenging ICE’s access to Medicaid records, arguing the agency has been using that information to assist in deportation operations.
According to the court filings, Medicaid officials improperly handed over data on millions of individuals to ICE, which then passed that information along to Palantir, a data analytics company.
