Q&A with Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar on surveillance, AI, the future of war, data, privacy, the US military, ImmigrationOS, the DHS, ICE, the UK's IDs, and more
The tech company's C.T.O. on surveillance, A.I. and the future of war. — Few companies in Silicon Valley inspire as much paranoia as Palantir. X: @douthatnyt and @morgangress Bluesky: @drewharwell.c...
Hacker group Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters posts the alleged names, phone numbers, and addresses of hundreds of US DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials on Telegram
A group of hackers from the Com, a loose-knit community behind some of the most significant data breaches in recent years …
Apple removes ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE officer sightings, from the App Store; AG Pam Bondi directed the DOJ to ask Apple to remove the app
Here's What We Know ABC Columbia : Apple removes ICE tracking apps Joe Sommerlad / The Independent : Apple pulls ICE tracking apps after pressure from the White House thesun.my : Apple pulls immigrati...
FOIA docs: ICE used a tool called GOST to decide whether US visa applicants' social media posts are “derogatory” to the US, as part of immigration enforcement
Check out this @404mediaco story on social media surveillance docs obtained by our @ACLU_NorCal team + @ACLU. https://www.404media.co/... Terri K O / @terri@social.afront.org : This article on how the...
Document: LexisNexis' $16.8M contract with ICE describes software that purports to detect and scrutinize migrants' activity by using license plate reader data
Sam Biddle / The Intercept : Bluesky: @taco.cat Bluesky: Scott Andreas / @taco.cat : Used to think of Lexis as the most incredible library on earth for legal / legislative research. But you can't be...
Leaked email from GitHub CEO shows the company will renew its $200K contract with ICE, despite stated opposition to child separation policies
seems fair that you'd protest selling software to ICE, but should Microsoft pull their Office 365 license too? Do you want a word processing software vendor making judgements about what words are proc...
Leaked email from GitHub CEO shows the company will renew its $200K contract with ICE, despite stated opposition to child separation policies
Even though GitHub leadership and others oppose ICE's child separation policy, an internal email suggests GitHub won't stop ICE from renewing a contract with the tech company.
Code deployment toolmaker Chef says it will not renew an ICE contract, after an ex-employee deleted his open-source code in protest leading to customer downtime
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Medium and GitHub scrub posts and database containing ICE employee LinkedIn data citing rules against doxxing; Twitter suspends bot tweeting info from database
Medium and GitHub say posting the LinkedIn data of a targeted group of employees constitutes doxing. The artist who made the database disagrees.
After Microsoft pulled reference on its site touting work with ICE, it reemerged after inquiry; Microsoft says it's “dismayed” by ICE's child separation policy
“An employee briefly deleted the blog after seeing commentary in social media. This was a mistake and as soon …