- Software company Palantir ensures an almost $ 30 million contract with IS
- The company will help the agency find physical locations and track logistics
- Palantir has been working with ICE since 2014 and has more military partnerships
US immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) have awarded a $ 29.9 million contract to the software company Palantir to build a software system to quickly enforce Trump administration’s deportation target, 404 media reports.
Leaked messages show that Palantir’s role includes finding the “physical location of people marked for deportation” and “producing prospects for law enforcement to find people to deport and keep track of the logistics of Trump’s mass portation effort.”
No other bid was heard by the department, as Palantir is the only supplier capable of delivering the system on such a quick turn (September 25), the department claims.
Expected setback
Palantir President Peter Thiel was an early backman of Trump, and the company already has several defense contracts and has worked in partnership with ICE since 2014.
The software company is also working in partnership with the US and Israeli militaries and took over the Pentagon’s project stomach contract – using machine learning for unmanned drones and weapons systems – after Google decided not to pursue the development of the petitions and resignation from the staff.
Trump’s denial of proper process to deported, deportation of legal inhabitants, and evasion of court orders has suffered severe setbacks, with civil rights organizations calling on tech companies to end their relationship with administration and law enforcement authorities.
This setback led Ted Mabrey, Palantir’s global leader of the commercial to write on Twitter that new tech workers participated in the wake of Palantir’s contract to “expect weather attacks like this all the time; from all sides of the political course,” adds, “the only way to counter these bullies is not to discuss but to build.”
Techradar Pro reached out to both Palantir and Ice for insight into any protection for legal residents and law -abiding citizens, but we have not yet received an answer.
