Amazon Is the Invisible Backbone Behind ICE’s Immigration Crackdown

> Palantir pays Amazon approximately $600,000 a month for the use of its servers, according to the report’s authors.

I mean... invisible backbone to the visible backbone? Is Apple the invisible backbone if ICE uses iPhone's to coordinate raids?

This is a terrible, incendiary headline. They're using AWS to host things - big whoop.

"All of that data and the algorithms powering ICM are now being migrated to Amazon Web Services (AWS) in their entirety; Palantir pays Amazon approximately $600,000 a month for the use of its servers, according to the report’s authors."

If it was on-prem would they then be targeting the Cisco, or IBM, or whatever servers used to host the same content?

Why stop at Amazon? Seems to me that Intel is the invisible backbone behind ICE’s immigration crackdown.

Actually, ICE/USCIS is doing something else with the data. In old days, when things were not digitized, people used to resort to many tricks: acquire a new identity and get immigration benefits. Recently, ICE/USCIS has been digitizing old records like fingerprints; later, they are scanning for any fingerprint collisions. Now they are going after people for lying on their applications. This, not migrating to AWS, is the real effect of technology.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/scann...

This is more in line with Palantir using AWS as their hosting provider. So it’s the same as saying amazon is the invisible backbone behind Netflix.

It would be far scarier if a company used political motivation to deny service.