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In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Trump Demands ‘Radical Left’ Reuters Return $9 Million to US Gov — That He Gave Them — After Baseless Elon Musk Claim, Tired of Taxes wrote:

I think Musk and Trump are missing something here. I wish they would research before talking.

The article says:

...the company awarded the contract was Thomson Reuters Special Services, which operates separately from Reuters News and specializes in fraud detection and risk management—areas directly relevant to countering cyber threats. [It was a] a contract awarded to a risk analytics firm to develop cybersecurity defenses..."

So... the Canadian company that owns Reuters also develops cybersecurity defenses? And the U.S. government gave that foreign company $9 million?

Here's where it gets really interesting.

Per the Wikipedia page:

Thomson Reuters owns and operates the Consolidated Lead Evaluation and Reporting (CLEAR) database, which scrapes personal and identifying data for use in law enforcement, corporate security, and fraud investigations. Per the company's marketing, CLEAR compiles public records, phone records, utility records, social media information, credit history, motor vehicle registration data, and automatic license plate reader scans to create files on its subjects. CLEAR has been the subject of numerous lawsuits alleging invasions of privacy and other violations of civil liberties.

So... a foreign company has all that information? What is going on here, right?

But, it turns out, Thomson Reuters has contracts with ICE. Here's a story about one from Trump's first term:

ICE Has a New $3.4M Contract With Thomson Reuters to Identify ‘Threats’ Against Agency Officials (2019)

And the above article mentions other contracts Thomson Reuters has had with ICE.

So, is the $9 million contract part of their work for ICE?

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I blew up the barcodes and checked them. It’s not medication.
X.com ^ | 5:07 PM · Feb 12, 2025 | Tired of being politically correct✓@USBornNRaised

Posted on 2/13/2025, 12:54:23 PM by E. Pluribus Unum

Senator Chris Coons✓@ChrisCoons: $300 million worth of medications are sitting on pallets about to expire thanks to Trump's effort to gut foreign aid. These drugs would've prevented people from going blind from a preventable tropical disease—Donald Trump would rather waste them in an East African warehouse.

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[thinden]

so, somebody in our gummit is paying a canadian company to snoop on US citizens?

why does ICE need info on US citizens?

does thompson reuters harvest this same data on illegal immigrants in the US?

[WildHighlander57]

Spitballing here....

I’d think that Reuters news agency and Reuters cyber security are both under scrutiny, and money is being followed to see the influence (and misuse); the news agency for skewing the message to the public, and the cyber security for misleading ICE.

[LittleLinda]

Thomson Reuters owns and operates the Consolidated Lead Evaluation and Reporting (CLEAR) database, which scrapes personal and identifying data for use in law enforcement, corporate security, and fraud investigations.
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Is that the same CLEAR program that expedites getting through airport security? They’re advertising it at almost every airport I pass through in the US. A person applies for the program, gets some kind of background check and gets escorted through security ahead of everyone else, even the Nexus people. I’ve been granted “trusted traveller” status by both Homeland Security and Canadian authorities through the Nexus program. They were thorough in their research and even talked to my neighbours from 25 years previous before I was given a Nexus pass. CLEAR participants go ahead of me in the airport security lines.