Open a credit card, and ICE learns where you live
Open a credit card, and ICE learns where you live Ellsworth Toohey 7:00 am Thu Jul 23, 2026 credit header data — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement / Public domain (Wikimedia Commons) When you open a credit card, you probably expect your home address expecting it to stay with your bank. According to 404 Media, it doesn't — the address travels through a chain of data brokers and ends up with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which can search it without a warrant.
- ▪Open a credit card, and ICE learns where you live Ellsworth Toohey 7:00 am Thu Jul 23, 2026 credit header data — U.S.
- ▪Immigration and Customs Enforcement / Public domain (Wikimedia Commons) When you open a credit card, you probably expect your home address expecting it to stay with your bank.
- ▪According to 404 Media, it doesn't — the address travels through a chain of data brokers and ends up with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which can search it without a warrant.
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Open a credit card, and ICE learns where you live Ellsworth Toohey 7:00 am Thu Jul 23, 2026 credit header data — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement / Public domain (Wikimedia Commons) When you open a credit card, you probably expect your home address expecting it to stay with your bank. According to 404 Media, it doesn't — the address travels through a chain of data brokers and ends up with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which can search it without a warrant. Reporter Joseph Cox mapped the route using government procurement records and internal company documents.
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