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The IRR is concerned that the government has given a contract to develop a ‘border flow tool’ to a company with disturbing links to the US far Right and which does not respect privacy or data protection safeguards.
theguardian.com/politics/2020/…
The new border contract gives US data analytics firm Palantir Technology access to HMRC and Home Office data in addition to data on goods and transport.
Founded by right-wing billionaire and Trump supporter Peter Thiel, the ‘patriotic’ company has been sued in the US for discriminating against Asian applicants and hires relatively few immigrants, citing a ‘reduced threat of subversion from workers or a foreign power’
According to @HuffPost Thiel’s far-right associates include his protegé Jeff Giesea, a secret funder of alt-right causes, & Charles ‘Chuck’ Johnson, a former Breitbart writer whom Thiel allegedly funded to set up alt-right crowdfunding platform, WeSearchR
huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/clearvie…
Thiel was an early investor in and, with Giesea and Johnson, closely associated with, Clearview AI, a facial recognition company active in US border enforcement.
🔗 bit.ly/ClearViewFarRi…
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Palantir is notorious in the US for aggregating enormous amounts of personal information about immigrants and undocumented workers, and providing the analytical tools for ICE raids.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
Privacy and ethical norms are ignored as data from many sources is amalgamated.
theintercept.com/2017/03/02/pal…
Among Palantir’s products, ‘Investigative Case Management’, builds profiles of unaccompanied child migrants which enable ICE officials to arrest their families in the US.
mijente.net/2019/05/palant…
Another, FALCON Search and Analysis, is used in workplace raids. It powered the largest immigration raid in a decade, in Mississippi, leading to the arrest of nearly 700 undocumented workers and the separation of parents from their children.
wnyc.org/story/palantir…
In the UK, Palantir won an NHS contract in March by offering to process patient data for three months for £1, handling confidential health information.
tech.newstatesman.com/coronavirus/pa…
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