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How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age

19 points by johnny313 7y ago

mindgam3 7y ago
Companies referenced in the article: - Vigilant Solutions - Giant Oak, whose founder was quoted in the article as saying "the better we have entity resolution” — that is, the better we can compile and measure people’s data — “the less of a surveillance state we’ll have.” - CLEAR (Consolidated Lead Evaluation and Reporting), a product of Thomson Reuters, with "real-time access to address and name-change data from credit reports and to motor-vehicle registrations in 43 U.S. states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico" - Appriss Safety, which runs a database called Justice Intelligence 1. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/07/eff-responds-vigilant-solutions-accusations-about-eff-alpr-report https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/07/eff-responds-vigilant-... 2. https://www.giantoak.com/ https://www.giantoak.com/ 3. https://legal.thomsonreuters.com/en/products/clear-investigation-software https://legal.thomsonreuters.com/en/products/clear-investiga... 4. https://apprisssafety.com/ https://apprisssafety.com/
- bredren 7y ago
  Note Vigilant was acquired by Motorola Solutions in January.
generj 7y ago
This article was chilling for me. I lived for six months in a town off the Oregon Coast by Hwy 101, just like the town in the article. I can vividly picture the ICE agents stopping people on their way to work. More terrifyingly, this data infrastructure could be turned to any purpose by a future government. This represents a fundamental shift in how effective Totalitarian governments can be. They have the ability to be more focused, even scientific in repressing opposition. It is insane the Washington licensing department had no clue where their residents drivers license data ended up. That the federal government side steps its own privacy guidelines by simply buying commercial datasets shows how deeply flawed the third party doctrine is. It is clear that legalization is needed in this area.
- beerandt 7y ago
  The crazies fighting against realID suddenly look quite sane. Yes, DMV info was for sale before that, but the data wasn't as extensive, mostly wasn't biometric, and wasn't standardized for national consumption.
asciident 7y ago
Okay so it wasn't mainly Palantir helping ICE, though they had a role. It was the DMV.

19 points by johnny313 7y ago

Companies referenced in the article: - Vigilant Solutions - Giant Oak, whose founder was quoted in the article as saying "the better we have entity resolution” — that is, the better we can compile and measure people’s data — “the less of a surveillance state we’ll have.” - CLEAR (Consolidated Lead Evaluation and Reporting), a product of Thomson Reuters, with "real-time access to address and name-change data from credit reports and to motor-vehicle registrations in 43 U.S. states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico" - Appriss Safety, which runs a database called Justice Intelligence 1. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/07/eff-responds-vigilant-solutions-accusations-about-eff-alpr-report https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/07/eff-responds-vigilant-... 2. https://www.giantoak.com/ https://www.giantoak.com/ 3. https://legal.thomsonreuters.com/en/products/clear-investigation-software https://legal.thomsonreuters.com/en/products/clear-investiga... 4. https://apprisssafety.com/ https://apprisssafety.com/

bredren 7y ago
Note Vigilant was acquired by Motorola Solutions in January.

generj 7y ago

This article was chilling for me. I lived for six months in a town off the Oregon Coast by Hwy 101, just like the town in the article. I can vividly picture the ICE agents stopping people on their way to work. More terrifyingly, this data infrastructure could be turned to any purpose by a future government. This represents a fundamental shift in how effective Totalitarian governments can be. They have the ability to be more focused, even scientific in repressing opposition. It is insane the Washington licensing department had no clue where their residents drivers license data ended up. That the federal government side steps its own privacy guidelines by simply buying commercial datasets shows how deeply flawed the third party doctrine is. It is clear that legalization is needed in this area.

beerandt 7y ago
The crazies fighting against realID suddenly look quite sane. Yes, DMV info was for sale before that, but the data wasn't as extensive, mostly wasn't biometric, and wasn't standardized for national consumption.

asciident 7y ago

Okay so it wasn't mainly Palantir helping ICE, though they had a role. It was the DMV.