ICE Is Snooping on Your Medical Bills
The immigration agency has reportedly gained access to a private database designed to fight insurance fraud.

The feds are vacuuming up a lot of data on Americans in the name of stopping illegal immigration. Their latest target? Your insurance data.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is now using data from the Insurance Services Office's ClaimSearch, a private industry service for detecting car and health insurance fraud, according to ICE documents obtained by the tech news site 404 Media on Wednesday. ClaimSearch includes 1.8 billion insurance claims and 58 million medical bills—along with the personal data attached to them, including addresses, tax identification numbers, and license plates.
ClaimSearch's public policy states that it grants full access to law enforcement agencies "investigating or prosecuting insurance-related crime, or developing background information about a specific individual or list of individuals who have been identified as persons of interest with regard to homeland security activity."
Verisk, the company that runs ClaimSearch, denied to 404 Media that ICE or the Department of Homeland Security is one of its clients. But the National Insurance Crime Bureau, which controls access to ClaimSearch, did not directly answer whether ICE has access. 404 Media speculated that ICE could have gained access through another government agency.
In March 2025, the Trump administration signed an executive order to tear down "information silos" between federal agencies, and in May, the IRS signed a data-sharing agreement with ICE. The administration has leaned heavily on surveillance contractor Palantir, which has a contract with ICE to facilitate "complete target analysis of known populations."
ICE has also been tapping into the nationwide network of license plate reading cameras by asking local law enforcement agencies to run searches for specific cars, 404 Media reported earlier this year. Some police departments insisted to 404 Media that the searches were conducted for ICE's Homeland Security Investigations branch, which handles organized crime and smuggling rather than immigration enforcement.
However, the ICE documents on ClaimSearch specifically said that the data was going to Enforcement and Removal Operations, the branch that handles the detention and deportation of undocumented immigrants.
The immigration cops didn't just start building their mass surveillance dragnets this year. In 2021, at the start of the Biden administration, The Washington Post reported that ICE was buying utility company records. While Customs and Border Protection (CBP) insisted in a 2018 report that it buys "only anonymized data" from third-party brokers, it has used commercial cell phone data to track and arrest specific people.
The newly passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which pumps $170 billion into immigration and border enforcement efforts, will make ICE the largest law enforcement agency in U.S. history. Thanks to the Trump administration's directives on information sharing, though, the data collected by ICE won't necessarily stay with ICE.
There's a whole, largely unknown ecosystem of commercial data brokers that sell information on citizens—often purchased through a confusing web of third-party services—to governments. And although there have been pushes from Congress and the Supreme Court to institute better privacy safeguards, the federal bureaucracy seems to be moving in the opposite direction.
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Protecting the fraudsters committing fraud Americans won't do.
It's not insurance fraud when illegal immigrants are legally allowed to get free healthcare.
>>The feds are vacuuming up a lot of data on Americans
since at least PRISM and related the ACA so what?
Unpossible. I’m told illegal immigrants don’t use medical services here.
And they don't have auto insurance.
Yeah, I know. It's government - not a Trump thing, just a government thing.
What would the Inuit do?
On top of 24/7 government surveillance if ICE gets their hands on my medical records I probably won't take up arms and join the insurrection. SCOTUS pissed away my enumerated rights decades ago. So again Reason makes the case that aliens are entitled to rights and process that I have never enjoyed. Give it up. The horse is already dead.
Whatever it takes to save lives.
White Girls Matter!
No infringement on liberty or invasion of privacy is too much if it means catching a single illegal.
Hey dumdum... these databases already existed. Existed many years ago. Largely due to ACA and other democrat bills.
But please continue in ignorance. Glad you support illegals committing fraud despite your lies you're okay with removing criminal illegals.
ClaimSearch's public policy states that it grants full access to law enforcement agencies "investigating or prosecuting insurance-related crime, or developing background information about a specific individual or list of individuals who have been identified as persons of interest with regard to homeland security activity."
God there are so many takes here I don't know where to begin. I'll start with the most basic one: Did ICE ask nicely?
Well, why not ICE? Everyone else does - - - - -
If you aren't guilty of something you have nothing to fear, right?
So many commenters here have already given up all their rights. I guess rights are all now merely privileges.
Nobody's giving up. Just acknowledging that any "right to privacy" we might have had has already been taken away, and the Fourth and Fifth Amendments have been in abeyance for years. Nothing significant has changed about that under Trump.
"Rights" that get in the way of enforcing the law are impediments, not rights.
Besides, if you're a white, Anglo-Saxon, protestant, citizen and registered Republican with English as your first language, and you shun learning because facts and textbooks are leftist, then you've got nothing to worry about.
Just put on that MAGA hat, tell everyone how you feel America sucks because it needs to be made great again, and how it can only be done with beautiful taxes and masked men kidnapping people off the street, and you'll be just fine.
Hate America and everything it has ever stood for, and no Trump defender will ever bother you.
After being rejected by Molly, the wild sarc sets his eyes on fellow antisemites for companionship.
Any port in a storm.
If you're British? Registered Republican? So a legal British immigrant, and you shun learning University is leftist, now. Yes most everyone agrees because they've made it leftist.
Sarc is the type of idiot who was told reading the Atlantic and listening to NPR makes you smart. So he started doing so not realizing he was getting indoctrinated.
We likely consented to it, having blindly signed the terms and conditions that nobody bothered to read.
Or, in the case of illegals, couldn't read but still signed anyway because hey free stuff.
I don't take any government assistance for health care, so?