How Amazon, Microsoft, Palantir, & other Big Tech profit from ICE and help Trump abuse migrants

In their 'No Tech For ICE' report, Mijente details how firms like Amazon, Microsoft, and Palantir plan to profit from the detention and deportations of migrants.

Technology companies are working with ICE to increase arrests, detentions, and deportations. Mijente, Immigrant Defense Project, and NIPNLG worked with Empower LLC to create this report exposing how tech is fueling the current deportation crisis. Learn more and join us to demand #notechforICE.

The groups are urging technology workers to Tell your execs you wont build tools that enable mass deportation & human rights abuses, sign our petition, and connect with us to find out how you can hold your companies accountable.

A [PDF of the report is here.]

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Our report details how firms like @Amazon @Microsoft @Palantir profit from detention & deportations.

We show how tech lobbying > massive gov. contracts > storing biometric data on millions & providing tech for deportations #NoTechForICEhttps://t.co/MGGTECRzSt

— Mijente (@ConMijente) October 23, 2018

.@Amazon is *far ahead* of any other tech company in storing sensitive datait has 204 FEDRamp authorizations, compared to Microsoft's 150, Oracle's 34, Salesforce's 31, & Google's 27.

It & other tech co's gave $250K to Congress, then won contracts to privatize gov data storage. pic.twitter.com/Sj2FIVzZ1j

— Mijente (@ConMijente) October 23, 2018

Theyre part of a new #CloudIndustrialComplex that lobbies legislators in Washington, DC to prioritize cloud storage for sensitive data, resulting in a huge migration of sensitive data to private cloud firms like Amazon, which get multi-million contracts to store the data.