Palantir, ICE, and the quiet expansion of a biometric dragnet
The collection and analysis of personal data have long been central to the operations of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
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ICE advances sole source deal with Palantir for new surveillance backbone
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is preparing to move forward with a sole-source contract to Palantir Technologies for the…
Palantir’s ImmigrationOS fuels Trump administration’s immigrant removal agenda
In April 2025, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) awarded a $30 million contract to Palantir Technologies to develop ImmigrationOS,…
Biometrics, big data and the new counterintelligence battlefield
A recent report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) warns that the digital infrastructure at the core…
Persona pushes back against fears its age assurance tech isn’t secure
The increased prevalence of age checks to access certain online services has brought increased scrutiny to the age assurance sector,…
CBP intelligence platform sits at intersection of border enforcement and domestic surveillance
When a Border Patrol agent photographed a peaceful observer of an immigration enforcement action in Portland, Maine last month, he…
ICE, FBI expand facial recognition use to protest investigations
Federal use of facial recognition and related surveillance technologies has expanded decisively into the monitoring of domestic protest activity, according…
Agentic AI security platform Outtake raises $40M to fight digital identity fraud
Anti-fraud AI agent platform Outtake has raised US$40 million in a Series B funding round led by Iconiq and a…
Data, quotas, and biometric surveillance are reshaping US immigration enforcement
What looks like randomness in modern immigration enforcement is not disorder – it is design. Across the country, U.S. Immigration…
ICE using data and probability to decide where to detain and arrest people
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enhanced Leads Identification & Targeting for Enforcement (ELITE) tool is being used to identify “targets”…
