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AJ Dellinger

For years, your information was being sold to ICE by utility companies

Here’s a bit of news that will make you go, “Hold on, what was happening?” The Washington Post reported Wednesday that the National Consumer Telecom and Utilities Exchange, one of the country’s largest utility trade groups, will stop providing the personal information of more than 170 million people to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which was using it to track people with immigration violations.

Okay, let’s take a step back quick because, uh, what?

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