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The report said work published by Privacy International showed major CTA companies had updated their approach to data sharing, but device information was still collected with "no meaningful consent".

The Home Office said that since July 2024, more than 60 arrests have been made and over £405,000 of criminal cash seized in the crackdown on abuse of the CTA.

Walker acknowledged a conflict of interest—he is working for the CTA and Pace—but pointed out that the benefits of mergers decrease with organizations of this size and complexity: “There aren’t that many economies of scale that arise from consolidating agencies as large as CTA and Pace,” he wrote, adding that the agency would be huge and mired in “bureaucratic inertia.”

The irony is, everyone agrees that Chicago’s CTA has been terribly run in recent years under the tenure of a president who spent more time flying abroad than riding the El, using his transit card on just 12 days over two years.

Meanwhile, 87% of US video game console imports came from China that year, 78% of smartphones, 79% of laptops and tablets, and two-thirds of monitors, says the CTA.