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"Thomson Reuters, the technology and content conglomerate that owns the
Reuters media agency but also owns and operates the investigative CLEAR
database, fired a longstanding employee after they spoke out about the company
selling data products to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according
to a lawsuit filed on Tuesday.
The lawsuit and firing come after more than 200 employees wrote a letter to
Thomson Reuters leadership about the company’s contracts with ICE and the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
“For nearly two decades, I helped Thomson Reuters build the legal resources
that lawyers and law enforcement trust. When I saw evidence that our products
were being used to harm people and undermine the law, I did what anyone should
do—I raised the alarm. Thomson Reuters’ response was to fire me,” Billie
Little, who was a senior attorney editor at Thomson Reuters, said in a
statement shared with 404 Media by her attorneys.
Thomson Reuters fired Little on March 20, according to a press release Little’s
attorneys sent to
404 Media on Tuesday. It says that Little led hundreds of
coworkers to raise concerns that Thomson Reuters’ CLEAR database “was being
used to compile and deliver sensitive personal and location data to federal
immigration authorities in ways that circumvented and violated state sanctuary
laws, privacy protections, and the Constitution.”"
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
