How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/magazine/ice-surveillance-deportation.html

by ductionist • 7 years ago

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mandevil2• 7 years ago

I found this article to be fascinating.

I loved how the big bad bogeymen we all know (Palantir, Facebook) are mentioned a few times (Google is never even mentioned), but the anonymous organizations that many of us would never give a second thought to- Thomson-Reuters, the DMV, court records, and a bewildering variety of smaller data brokers like Appriss Safety, Vigilant Solutions, R.L. Polk etc. - are the real threats. Reverse engineering how ERO agents found and identified their targets like this is really important for showing how minimal our privacy really is.

dragonwriter• 7 years ago

I loved how the big bad bogeymen we all know (Palantir, Facebook) are mentioned a few times (Google is never even mentioned), but the anonymous organizations that many of us would never give a second thought to- Thomson-Reuters, the DMV, court records

Outside the HN bubble, Palantir is far less recognized as a intrusive entity from which security services might get your private info than the DMV, court records (and other already-part-of-the-government entities/processes) are...

Heck Palantir is much less recognized as even a thing that exists than those other things are recognized as threats.

mandevil2• 7 years ago

Google News for top articles on Palantir shows many about some sort of IPO/fundraising round, but also:

https://www.businessinsider.com/activist-group-targets-palan...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelposner/2019/09/12/what-c...

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/9/26/20884182/palantir-ice-p...

https://www.businessinsider.com/mit-stanford-students-palant...

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2019/09/duke-universit...

That wasn't searching for "Palantir ICE", that was a straight google news for just Palantir, and the first 20-odd hits had 5 specifically about the companies relationship to ICE. No other customer mentioned, it's all IPO and ICE.

How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age

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