Thread by @ConMijente

We know there's a revolving door b/w Silicon Valley & the fed gov.

Tech gets richer while our ppl increasingly disappear at the hands of ICE.

Now we know how willing co. like Thompson Reuters are to not only work with ICE, but to create targeted lists of our ppl. ⬇️

Docs show how TR Special Services employees track changes in personal info (names, addresses, jail bookings, driver’s license info, phone numbers & more) & subject location, updating ICE agents & helping them refine deportation investigations

See docs ⬇️
notechforice.com/thomson-reuter…

This work also involves “risk mitigation services” (a $4 million contract) which is supposed to track threats against agents.

In reality, this has just been used to retaliate against undocumented immigrant activist & others who protest ICE's activities.

But the ties don't end with the work stipulated in these contracts.

The company’s CEO, James Dinkins, sits on the board of the ICE Foundation, a NGO set up to support ICE employees, alongside executives from companies like GEO Group & Booz Allen Hamilton.

Unlike other gov. contractors, TR ($70 million in ICE contracts) does not passively sell personal data to ICE.

The co. tailors its operations to ICE's needs & helps target individuals with automated analysis AND in-house human analysts, according to the documents.

They got human beings AND tech doing ICE's dirty work.

Shouldn't there be laws protecting us from the gov. collecting such data?

Well, there ARE laws that are supposed to protect us from the fed. gov. procuring this kind of data.

For example the gov. can't directly buy or store certain records.

However these laws do NOT apply to Thompson Reuters.

AND b/c ICE buys its data from Thompson Reuters, it can circumvent these laws.

This news comes at an interesting time. In Canada, a major shareholder & large union, @BCGEU, put forward a shareholders proposal calling on TR to investigate ICE abuses.

Shareholders are voting THIS WEEK in advance of the AGM on 6/3.

Folks want answers.

Anyways, back to ICE circumventing the law through contracts with tech companies.....

Once again, ICE is acting like it is above the law.

ICE is a rogue fed agency that dangles contracts in the face of tech companies who are falling over themselves in a rush to hand over their tools, workers & our data in exchange for big bucks.

Thomson Reuters is willing to hand over our people to an agency that consistently commits human rights abuses to get a small piece of the federal pie.

They are not alone in this choice.

But neither are we.

We're fighting back.

Learn more & join us at notechforice.com/thomson-reuter…

#NoDataforICE #NoTechforICE

Spread the word, retweet this video & demand that @thomsonreuters cut their ties with ICE!

#NoDataforICE

****Thomson Reuters Special Services CEO Steve Rubley sits on the board of the ICE Foundation, an NGO set up to support ICE employees, alongside executives from companies like GEO Group & Booz Allen Hamilton.

nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…