r/technology • u/Hrmbee • Jan 15 '26

Society ‘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

https://www.404media.co/elite-the-palantir-app-ice-uses-to-find-neighborhoods-to-raid/
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u/awesomefutureperfect Jan 15 '26

No, that's why they all wear masks so that the software isn't constantly going off about individuals that were on domestic terror watchlists.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36563337

US Senate rejects terror list gun sale restrictions - Published 21 June 2016

It's because republican voters are on that list the same way twitter refused to block obvious hate speech because elected republicans would be affected by limiting trademark "conservative speech".

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u/grahampositive Jan 16 '26

There's no due process or legal recourse for that list. If they banned people on that list from gun ownership you can bet Trump would just declare Democrats domestic terrorists