NJ Mobilizes in Opposition to Palantir Hi-Tech Role in ICE Repression
The following is the call to action at #NoTechForICE organizing website regarding the role of the insidious Palantir corporation that profits off of warfare, genocide and in the USA fascist federal repression by ICE and other outlaw federal policing agencies.
Palantir Technologies is shamelessly profiting off of the personal information gathered from immigrants and all of us. Their roots run deep with ties to the Department of Defense, including tech and infrastructure development for the military. For over 10 years, Palantir has been a container for state violence, harnessing personal and private information across various federal agencies and local city and state departments for ICE.
Their ‘tech innovation’ and infrastructure has made it possible for unprecedented levels of surveillance on immigrant communities. Fighting back against Palantir is a fight against corporate greed. We need to organize together to stop this Big Tech beast.
Now, the moment demands that we continue the fight, exposing their actions over and over until all our gente know. We have seen Palantir test its technology on immigrant and over-policed communities over the years. Their next steps show that they are applying what they’ve learned towards the people at-large.
MAKE THE ROAD NJ IS ACCEPTING THE CHALLENGE
Apparently Make the Road is charting a direction that is in agreement with these demands as they have received wide media coverage for the protest they led on September 29 opposing the role of Palantir in automating the targeting of our working class communities by masked agents and likely others functioning under the illegal cover of the lawless ICE policing agency of the Department of Homeland Security.
As described in the report at NJ Herald:
Protesters took to the streets of Newark on Sept. 29 to send a message: No to the ICE surveillance database.
The protest organized by the immigration advocacy group Make the Road was centered around the technology platform ImmigrationOS, developed by the software company Palantir Technologies, co-founded by tech billionaire and Donald Trump ally Peter Thiel.
The Trump administration awarded a $30 million contract in April to Palantir to develop the software that tracks people who plan to self-deport and target gang members and those who have overstayed their visas. That will be done by collecting biographical and biometric data from government databases to identify immigrants. Palantir was scheduled to provide a prototype of ImmigrationOS to ICE on Sept. 25. It will be used by ICE for two years, according to the contract. (From report by NJ Herald)
The action of the protest as reported by Univision:
PALANTIR TECHNOLOGY TESTED IN GAZA IN THE EFFORT TO EXTERMINATE PALESTINIANS
While it was not the subject of the protest, Palantir has also been widely condemned by human rights activists over its support for genocide in Gaza – where it deploys the same and similar technology for the US – Israel purpose of exterminating Palestinians. This vid report from Al Jazeera goes in depth on that role and on the role Palantir is also playing in consolidating the privacy information about everyone in the United States that is being raided by the Trump Administration.
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The following is a collection of articles for further investigation of this matter:
24 / 7 MONITORING OF SOCIAL MEDIA ICE TARGETING OPERATION SEEKS VENDORS
https://www.theverge.com/news/792145/ice-is-taking-bids-to-build-a-24-7-social-media-police-state
TOP TRUMP SECURITY ADVISOR STEPHEN MILLER CONFLICT OF INTEREST, PALANTIR INVESTMENTS:
https://www.pogo.org/investigations/stephen-miller-conflicts-of-interest
PALANTIR / ICE CONTRACT
https://www.ice.gov/doclib/foia/contracts/palantirTechHSCETC15C00001.pdf
DEEP DIVE ON PALANTIR
https://fedscoop.com/palantir-federal-agencies-government-data/
