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Documents offer rare insight on Ice’s close relationship with Palantir
For years, little was known about the multibillion-dollar company that handles data for the US immigration enforcement agency. Now, a cache of emails, training documents and reports sheds light on how Palantir helps Ice with investigations and on-the-ground enforcement
Composite: Rita Liu/The Guardian/Getty Images/Just Futures LawOver the past decade, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency ( Ice) has amassed millions of data points that it uses to identify and track its targets – from social media posts to location history and, most recently, tax information. For example, in January 2019, Ice’s investigative unit was preparing for an anti-human-trafficking operation at the 53rd Super Bowl in Atlanta, which DHS had designated a high-level security event that could require “extensive federal interagency support”. Data collected in the ICM platform was, in some cases, made accessible to agents in other parts of Ice, including units within CBP, the Transportation Security Administration and the US Coast Guard, emails from July 2019 show.
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