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Can an ‘ethical’ spyware maker justify providing its tech to ICE?
Analysis: In calling itself an ethical spyware vendor, Paragon has opened itself up to scrutiny of its government customers.
Since taking office in January, the Trump administration has authorized ICE to carry out large-scale immigration raids across the U.S., leading to the detention of thousands of migrants — and numerous U.S. citizens — in part thanks to data stored in federal databases and using technologyprovided by govtech giant Palantir. At the time, a Biden administration official told Wired that the U.S. government had “immediately engaged” top leadership at Homeland Security, which houses ICE, to determine if the contract met the requirements of the executive order. “Given this administration’s record of attacks on human rights and civil society organizations, we hope that Paragon would reconsider the agreement,” said Michael De Dora, the U.S. advocacy manager at Access Now, a nonprofit that has worked to expose spyware abuses.
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