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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos into a Palantir Database

47 points CircuitSeuss 2 hours ago 8 comments

CircuitSeuss 2 hours ago | parent

> According to the legal filing, that afternoon, J.C. [an ICE agent] called [the spouse of an individual who had lawfully recorded an ICE detainment] on her cell phone, identifying himself only as "the Department of Homeland Security." According to [the call recipient], he told her she "should encourage" her spouse, [the observer], "not to do anything like that in the future because people who are doing things like that might get added to a domestic terrorism watchlist." J.C. testified in a deposition that he warned [the observer’s spouse] she would be arrested if she “continue[d] to do this.”

This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone following US news, but we should be angry about it. Textbook intimidation.

> Government attorneys asserted in a court filing that [agent J.C.] denied referencing a “domestic terrorism watchlist.”

And then they lied about it!

ncr100 1 hour ago | parent

Sooooo, harassing citizens for exercising our right to public free speech.

lesuorac 1 hour ago | parent

It’ll be nice when we go the other direction of qualified immunity where you need to actually be doing an enumerate act to qualify for immunity.

ImPostingOnHN 1 hour ago | parent

small-government republicans at it again

bmitc 53 minutes ago | parent

Small government to Republicans has _always_ meant "government our way or the highway". And how can they be the "fiscally responsible" party and yet be the cause of the national debt, borrowing from social security, and overspending and waste every Republican presidency?

And it's crazy. Remember when people claimed vaccines, which save people's lives, were being called an attack on the American people by the Democrats? But then Republican enabled no-names pulled of the street to go around shooting citizens and others, and that's apparently fine.

0x1ch 1 hour ago | parent

Hey guys, if you have a dashcam that can record at any time, start hitting that button when you think there might even be an inkling of an unmarked vehicle by you. Back up that footage and save it.

hedora 31 minutes ago | parent

I wonder if Palantir keeps a database of ICE activity.

If so, I wonder how much it will cost for the next democratic DOJ to purchase it, or if the courts will simply compel Palantir to hand it over.

karanbhangui 5 minutes ago | parent

FYI Palantir doesn't store anything themselves. These are on-prem or private cloud deployments on top of actual data stores.