Essential Guide: '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."

It apparently looks a lot like Google Maps, but designed to show the richness of an area for “targets”, populated in part by density of immigrants. And then you can dig in:

The Nazis could only dream of having such a capability.

Imagine working for this company, on this product. Every day, you go into work, in what I assume is a beautiful office with pine furniture and a well-stocked kitchen, and you build software that will help to deport people using what you know are extrajudicial means without due process. You probably have OKRs. There are customer calls with ICE. Every two-week sprint, you take on tasks that help make this engine better.

What do you tell yourself? What do you tell your family?

Are you on board with this agenda, or do you tell yourself you need the job to pay rent? To get healthcare?

You receive stock as part of your pay package. It’s going up! You can use it to buy a home, or to build a comfortable retirement, or some combination of the two.

Your co-workers are values aligned and work hard. They’re talented and smart. Man, you might think to yourself, I love working with this team.

Or, you might think, man, I’ve got to find another job.

Either way, you’re proud of your product work. You’re happy to take the salary, the free lunches, the espresso. And regardless of how you feel about it, the thing you do every day is powering an armed force that is kidnapping people on the street and shooting civilians, that shot a mother in the face, that is targeting people to disappear using a beautiful, modern map interface.

Source: HackerNews