Documents offer rare insight on Ice's close relationship with Palantir

[erronis]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/sep/22/ice-palantir-data
Johana Bhuiyan

For years, little was known about the multibillion-dollar company that handles data for the US immigration enforcement agency. Now, a cache of emails, training documents and reports sheds light on how Palantir helps Ice with investigations and on-the-ground enforcement

Over the past decade, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (Ice) has amassed millions of data points that it uses to identify and track its targets – from social media posts to location history and, most recently, tax information.

And there’s been one, multibillion-dollar tech company particularly instrumental in enabling Ice to put all that data to work: Palantir, the data analytics firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, the rightwing mega-donor and tech investor.

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“We’ve always known what the tools Palantir built are capable of. We now have the receipts for that,” said Jacinta González, one of the original organizers behind the No Tech for Ice campaign and the head of programs at digital rights non-profit MediaJustice.

The documents reveal how deeply embedded Palantir’s tools were in HSI’s day-to-day operations, helping its agents to investigate and arrest people using a searchable super-network of government and private databases.

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[ret5hd]

1. "they put tracking chips in the vaccines!!!"

“the govt knowing everyone’s movements is good as long as it gets THEM!!!”

[leftstreet]

2. Wish I had stock in Palantir

I bet plenty of our savvy politicians do

[erronis]

3. Bet an awful lot more (R)s own Palantir stock then (D)s.

And bet they get insider trading info.

[fujiyamasan]

5. I know MTG has made a lot off it

You can still buy, but you’d have to stomach the awful stuff the company does (or mentally separate your investments from your own politics and ethics), and from a a financial sense it’s very richly valued with a PE of almost 600! So once there’s any kind of slip in growth, this thing will fall.

You can always short it or buy puts if you’re bearish on the stock.

[CousinIT]

4. Too bad US media doesn't see the need for investigative reporting on such things. n/t