"Over the past decade, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (Ice) has amassed millions of data points that it uses to identify and track its targets from social media posts to location history and, most recently, tax information. And there's been one, multibillion-dollar tech company particularly instrumental in enabling Ice to put all that data to work: Palantir, the data analytics firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, the rightwing mega-donor and tech investor."
"The documents span the period of 2014 to 2022, illustrating Palantir's work with both Democratic and Republican administrations. But experts say the insights are especially alarming in light of the second Trump administration's unprecedented investment in Ice. As the agency chases aggressive deportation quotas, Ice is set to gain even more personal data from federal agencies, including the Internal Revenue Service, as well as from new tools such as facial-recognition software"
ICE assembled millions of personal data points from social media, location history, and tax records and used them for identification, tracking, and enforcement. Palantir supplied analytics software that integrated, searched, visualized, and linked disparate datasets for Homeland Security Investigations under a multiyear contract spanning 2014–2022. Palantir positioned itself as a data processor while providing operational tools and support used in investigations and field operations. Internal exchanges and training material show Palantir-enabled target prioritization and case planning. Expanded access to IRS records and facial-recognition tools threatens to increase surveillance precision and magnify deportation-focused enforcement under heightened ICE mandates.
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