How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age
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I loved how the big bad bogeymen we all know (Palantir, Facebook) are mentioned a few times (Google is never even mentioned), but the anonymous organizations that many of us would never give a second thought to- Thomson-Reuters, the DMV, court records, and a bewildering variety of smaller data brokers like Appriss Safety, Vigilant Solutions, R.L. Polk etc. - are the real threats. Reverse engineering how ERO agents found and identified their targets like this is really important for showing how minimal our privacy really is.
Outside the HN bubble, Palantir is far less recognized as a intrusive entity from which security services might get your private info than the DMV, court records (and other already-part-of-the-government entities/processes) are...
Heck Palantir is much less recognized as even a thing that exists than those other things are recognized as threats.
https://www.businessinsider.com/activist-group-targets-palan...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelposner/2019/09/12/what-c...
https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/9/26/20884182/palantir-ice-p...
https://www.businessinsider.com/mit-stanford-students-palant...
https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2019/09/duke-universit...
That wasn't searching for "Palantir ICE", that was a straight google news for just Palantir, and the first 20-odd hits had 5 specifically about the companies relationship to ICE. No other customer mentioned, it's all IPO and ICE.