How are ICE agents picking where to commit their next act of wanton violence? Well, Palantir has an app for that!<\/p>\n
According to a user guide obtained by 404 Media<\/a>, the app provides ICE agents with a digital map populated by potential deportation targets, each of which has their own detailed dossier, including information such as their name, date of birth, Alien Registration Number (a unique identifier assigned by the U.S. government), and a photograph of the target. The dossier also includes a \u201cconfidence score\u201d out of 100 as to how certain the app is of the target\u2019s address.<\/p>\n \u201cEnhanced Leads Identification & Targeting for Enforcement (ELITE) is a targeting tool designed to improve capabilities for identifying and prioritizing high-value targets through advanced analytics,\u201d the user guide states. <\/p>\n The information comes from a number of sources, including the Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and something called CLEAR, which could be an investigation software from Thomson Reuters<\/a>, according to 404Media.<\/p>\n The app\u2019s \u201cGeospatial Lead Sourcing Tab\u201d allows ICE agents to select targets based on a number of criteria, including \u201cBios & IDs,\u201d \u201cCriminality,\u201d \u201cLocation,\u201d and \u201cOperations,\u201d the user guide shows. Using the app, ICE agents can select individual targets or multiple targets at once by drawing a shape around a selected area. During a sworn deposition earlier this month about a \u201cdragnet\u201d raid<\/a> in Woodburn, Oregon, an officer with ICE\u2019s Fugitive Operations Unit said that agents used the app to find target-rich areas. <\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re going to go to a more dense population rather than \u2026 like, if there\u2019s one pin at a house and the likelihood of them actually living there is like 10 percent \u2026 you\u2019re not going to go there,\u201d said the agent, who was identified as \u201cJB\u201d in the court documents obtained by 404 Media. <\/p>\n While the user guide does not explicitly state what company created the app, the app\u2019s full name appears in a $29.9 million supplemental agreement with Palantir that started in September and is planned to continue for at least a year, 404Media reported.<\/p>\n ICE previously signed an agreement<\/a> with Palantir in July to develop an ImmigrationOS platform, which would use artificial intelligence to identify and track potential targets. ICE has also assembled a team<\/a> to monitor social media 24\/7, surveying platforms including Instagram, X, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, and Reddit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How are ICE agents picking where to commit their next act of wanton violence? Well, Palantir has an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[141842,2306,37313,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-372305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-ice-agents","9":"tag-mobile","10":"tag-palantir","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}