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‘Domestic Terrorism’ ICE Contractor Palantir’s Tools for Tracking Dissent
The controversial data firm co-founded by tech billionaire Peter Thiel – which holds UK government contracts – researched protest prediction for the US Army before agreeing to build ICE’s data platform to conduct mass deportation. Nafeez Ahmed reports
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The Trump administration’s immigration and customs enforcement agency, ICE – which sparked outrage after killing US citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on the grounds of them being “domestic terrorists” – is using digital surveillance for its mass deportation scheme built by the data firm Palantir, which previously developed tools to track protestors for the US Army.
Palantir, the US data firm co-founded by pro-Trump tech billionaire Peter Thiel, has major contracts with the UK’s Department of Health and Social Care, and the Ministry of Defence.
The company has a £330 million contract as the lead supplier of the NHS’ federated data programme, and a £240 million contract to provide analytics for the MoD. London is home to the company’s biggest office outside of the United States.
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