"Now we have the first evidence that our concerns have become reality. "Palantir is working on a tool for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that populates a map with potential deportation targets, brings up a dossier on each person, and provides a \"confidence score\" on the person's current address," 404 Media reports today. "ICE is using it to find locations where lots of people it might detain could be based.""
"The tool - dubbed Enhanced Leads Identification & Targeting for Enforcement (ELITE) - receives peoples' addresses from the Department of Health and Human Services (which includes Medicaid) and other sources, 404 Media reports based on court testimony in Oregon by law enforcement agents, among other sources."
"Different government agencies necessarily collect information to provide essential services or collect taxes, but the danger comes when the government begins pooling that data and using it for reasons unrelated to the purpose it was collected. This kind of consolidation of government records provides enormous government power that can be abused."
A federal judge was asked to block the federal government from using Medicaid data to identify and deport immigrants. Concerns about consolidating government information into a single AI-driven interface with help from Palantir have materialized. Palantir is developing a tool called ELITE for ICE that maps potential deportation targets, assembles dossiers, and assigns confidence scores to current addresses. ELITE pulls addresses from the Department of Health and Human Services, including Medicaid, and other sources. ICE uses the tool to locate areas with concentrations of potential detainees and has increased deployments such as in Minneapolis. Pooling data collected for services creates concentrated power that can be abused.
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