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Activists are protesting software company Palantir’s contracts with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency at Burning Man
Mijente, an advocacy group for Latinx and Chicanx organizing, brought a giant cage on wheels to the festival in Black Rock Desert, Nevada, with the intent to bring the contract to the attention of tech workers in attendance.
“We're conducting an action at Burning Man to start a conversation with these tech workers, in hopes of building the bridge between families being torn apart by ICE, and the tech companies that code the software to help ICE,” said a spokesperson for the group.
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Palantir has a $51 million contract with ICE to provide its Investigative Case Management (ICM) software to the agency. The technology helps ICE access subject’s information in areas like family relationships, employment information, phone records, immigration history, personal connections, biometric traits and home and work addresses among other categories, according to the Intercept.
The Intercept has detailed how the Peter Thiel-founded data analysis firm has become integral in ICE’s work.
http://thehill.com/policy/technology/404630-activists-protest-palantirs-ice-contract-at-burning-man