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Amazon Is the Invisible Backbone Behind ICE’s Immigration Crackdown
- gammateam 8y agoTl;dr because they use AWS lol k.
- gpapilion 8y agoThis is more in line with Palantir using AWS as their hosting provider. So it’s the same as saying amazon is the invisible backbone behind Netflix.
- plandis 8y agoWhy stop at Amazon? Seems to me that Intel is the invisible backbone behind ICE’s immigration crackdown.
- partiallypro 8y agoWoah there, this really comes down to a mine in China that providers the silicon for the chips that Intel built, that are located inside of AWS data centers.
- femto113 8y agoIntel’s chips don’t run on fairy dust. Seems to me the electric company is the invisible backbone behind this crackdown.
- HelloFellowDevs 8y ago> Palantir pays Amazon approximately $600,000 a month for the use of its servers, according to the report’s authors. I mean... invisible backbone to the visible backbone? Is Apple the invisible backbone if ICE uses iPhone's to coordinate raids?
- ok_go 8y agoIt would be far scarier if a company used political motivation to deny service.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoBusinesses are well within their right to refuse service to the government (anyone, really) if they believe they’re participating in unethical practices.
- hnlurker 8y agoTell that to the religious bakers, or florists. Right of refusal is a privilege of left-leaning businesses.
- binalpatel 8y agoThis is a terrible, incendiary headline. They're using AWS to host things - big whoop. "All of that data and the algorithms powering ICM are now being migrated to Amazon Web Services (AWS) in their entirety; Palantir pays Amazon approximately $600,000 a month for the use of its servers, according to the report’s authors." If it was on-prem would they then be targeting the Cisco, or IBM, or whatever servers used to host the same content?
- raincom 8y agoActually, ICE/USCIS is doing something else with the data. In old days, when things were not digitized, people used to resort to many tricks: acquire a new identity and get immigration benefits. Recently, ICE/USCIS has been digitizing old records like fingerprints; later, they are scanning for any fingerprint collisions. Now they are going after people for lying on their applications. This, not migrating to AWS, is the real effect of technology. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/scanning-immigrants-old-fingerprints-us-threatens-to-strip-thousands-of-citizenship/2018/06/13/2230d8a2-6f2e-11e8-afd5-778aca903bbe_story.html?utm_term=.f709b17c060a https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/scann...