Palantir Develops 'ELITE' Mapping Tool for ICE to Identify Deportation Targets
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Summary
Palantir is developing a tool called 'ELITE' for ICE that uses mapping technology to identify potential deportation targets, providing dossiers on individuals and confidence scores for their current addresses. The tool helps ICE locate areas with high concentrations of potential detainees, based on internal ICE materials and official testimony obtained by 404 Media.
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brings up a dossier on each person, and provides a 'confidence score' on the person's current address
ICE is using it to find locations where lots of people it might detain could be based
The findings... show the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency's activities on the ground
Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground.
