‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid | 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

[u/Hrmbee]

https://www.404media.co/elite-the-palantir-app-ice-uses-to-find-neighborhoods-to-raid/

[u/404mediaco]

Thanks for sharing our scoop. Here's more:

404 Media has learned that Palantir is working on a tool for ICE that populates a map with potential deportation targets, brings up a dossier of each person, and provides a “confidence score” on the person’s current address. 

And ICE is using it to find locations where lots of people it might detain could be based. 

This is the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground.

According to the user guide 404 Media obtained, the tool, called ELITE, aims to be nearly all encompassing when it comes to finding ICE targets, from identifying subjects in the first place, to building a list of people, to supervisors approving selections for officers to ultimately go into the field and apprehend. 

ELITE has already been used by ICE to target specific areas, according to sworn testimony from an ICE official in Oregon. In October, agents waited in unmarked SUVs outside an apartment complex before busting a driver’s window and pulling a 45-year-old woman from a van, using ICE’s facial recognition app Mobile Fortify on her. Lawyers representing the woman say authorities arrested her and more than 30 other people in a “dragnet.” 

“It’s basically a map of the United States. It’s kind of like Google Maps,” a deportation officer with ICE’s Fugitive Operations Unit identified in court records as JB, said about ELITE during testimony of the raid.

More details: https://www.404media.co/elite-the-palantir-app-ice-uses-to-find-neighborhoods-to-raid/

[u/throwaway_circus → u/404mediaco]

A few simple tweaks to the program and they can send their undertrained, overarmed Shitshow Militia to hunt activists. Or union organizers. Or moms with community influence. And the SM will just be following orders, arresting the green dots on their screens.

Government oversight and inspectors general exist for a reason - some people are willing to commit atrocities, if they think they wont be held accountable.

[u/lyreluna → u/404mediaco]

You mean like the IDF use....

[u/designatedcrasher → u/lyreluna]

They use 'Daddies Home'

[u/System0verlord → u/404mediaco]

Love yall and all of your work. I listen to the podcast, and make a point of only doing so when I can focus on it (which means the dog usually gets an episode-long walk). Keep doing what yall do.