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09.06.2022	Records show ICE uses LexisNexis to check millions, far more than previously thought	Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been using LexisNexis since it parted ways with its previous data broker partner back in 2021. But far from using the platform strictly for checking for those with “serious criminal backgrounds,...
30.09.2020	Palantir shares jump 30% in stock market debut	Shares of data-mining company Palantir rose 30% as the data mining company made its public market debut on Wednesday in a direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange. Dubbed the "most secretive" Silicon Valley startup, it has fa...
29.09.2020	Amnesty International slams Palantir's human rights record	Amnesty International is criticizing Palantir's human rights record a day before the secretive Silicon Valley technology startup is set to go public. In a report on Monday, Amnesty singled out Palantir's contracts with the U.S. Department o...
22.09.2020	Activists are chasing Palantir across the US this week to protest its contracts with ICE	Activist groups have organized a series of protests across the US against Palantir this week over the company's contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The groups staged a "good riddance" protest outside Palantir's for...
17.09.2020	As Palantir gears up to go public, activist groups are rallying BlackRock — a major investor — to ask the big data company to cut its ties with ICE	Activists protest outside the Palantir Technologies software company for allegedly helping ICE and the Trump administration in New York City, U.S., September 13, 2019 Reuters/Shannon Stapleton This story is available exclusively to Insider ...
10.09.2020	Anduril launches a smarter drone and picks up more money to build a virtual border wall	The company building the virtual border wall has a new version of its stealthy fast-flying drones — and a fresh contract with Customs and Border Protection to match. Anduril, a young defense-friendly tech company from the founder of Oculus,...
01.07.2020	Anduril Raises $200 Million To Fund Ambitious Plans To Build A Defense Tech Giant	An Anduril Ghost surveillance drone.CHRISTIAN PONDELLA / Courtesy of Anduril Industries
22.06.2020	Motherboard and Mijente Present SURVEILLANCE PANDEMIC with Edward Snowden and Naomi Klein	Spy planes, helicopters, and drones surveilled hundreds of thousands of Americans around the country as they took to the streets to protest the police killing of George Floyd and racist police. Meanwhile, a series of surveillance startups a...
17.03.2020	Civil Liberties Are At Risk in Rush to Track Coronavirus, Data Analysis Firm Warns	As this novel coronavirus has rapidly spread through dozens of states this past week, the daily lives of Americans have been upturned to such an extent that many people have grasped for a comparable time in history to look back to in terms ...
24.01.2020	Palantir’s CEO Finally Admits to Helping ICE Deport Undocumented Immigrants	In a CNBC interview at Davos, Palantir CEO Alex Karp admitted that his company “[finds] people in our country who are undocumented.” For years, Palantir has attempted to deny or downplay any role in those operations by pointing to the two w...
15.01.2020	Investing In Immigrant Surveillance: Palantir And The #NoTechForICE Campaign	Jacinta González, a senior campaign organizer at Mijente, speaking at a rally.Mijente
20.12.2019	I’m a Mother of Four. Palantir’s Tech Helped Put Me in an ICE Detention Center	Maria Domingo Garcia is a factory worker and mother of four who is currently incarcerated at an ICE detention facility in Jena, Louisiana. This summer, I was one of the nearly 700 immigrants arrested in the massive ICE raid at a Koch Foods ...
19.11.2019	Students at 16 Universities Are Protesting Palantir’s Presence on Campuses	It’s no secret that many universities have cozy relationships with Palantir. The data mining company that contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is known to recruit on campuses across the country. And students are not too ...
12.11.2019	The case against Grace Hopper Celebration	Raksha Muthukumar Contributor Share on Twitter Raksha is a software engineer at Google who is passionate about social justice and liberation through technology. We’ve heard the criticisms that there were fewer black women speakers than whit...
30.07.2019	Inside the history of Silicon Valley labor, with Louis Hyman	As I wrote for TechCrunch recently, immigration is not an issue always associated with tech — not even when thinking about the ethics of technology, as I do here. So when I was moved to tears a few weeks ago, on seeing footage of groups of ...
26.07.2019	A 26-year-old billionaire is building virtual border walls — and the federal government is buying	On a Friday afternoon in late July, a crowd of techies, military types and a few civilians deployed to the new Irvine headquarters of Anduril Industries, a defense tech start-up, to sip hibiscus margaritas and admire the sensor towers and c...
11.07.2019	Unraveling immigration politics and Silicon Valley ethics with Jaclyn Friedman	Immigration may not seem to be a tech issue. But for Americans with some personal or family experience with the idea of separated families and/or concentration camps, it can be hard to see what is currently going on in our names thanks to t...
03.05.2019	Palantir’s software was used for deportations, documents show	Data mining firm Palantir’s software was used by a U.S. government agency during an operation in 2017 in which immigrants crossing the border were arrested for deportation, newly released documents (PDF) have shown, contradicting the $20 bi...
30.07.2017	Addressing unjust US surveillance policies	Steven Renderos Contributor Steven Renderos is the organizing director at the Center for Media Justice, a national racial justice organizing hub that champions the media and technology rights of people of color and America's poor. More post...

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