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October 22, 2019 09:28 pm PDT

NoTechForICE: Calling on ACM to cancel Palantir's sponsorship of the first ACM Symposium on Computer Science and Law

Next week, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) will host its inaugural Symposium on Computer Science and Law, whose sponsors include Palantir, Peter Thiel's notorious surveillance-tech company, which just renewed a $49m contract with ICE to provide technological aid for ICE's ethnic cleansing program, which has included mass family separations and the deaths of children in custody.

A group of activist campaigners including Make the Road New York and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) are calling on ACM to cancel Palantir's sponsorship of this event.

I am on the secretariat for the ACM's Technology Policy Committee, and I agree with the call, though I am not able to speak for the USTPC itself, so I have signed the petition in my personal capacity.

Palantir sells two tools to ICE. The first, Investigative Case Management (ICM), is mission critical to ICEs efforts, according to government documents, and was used at the border to investigate the families and sponsors of children who crossed the border alone. The operation, designed specifically to dissuade children from joining family in the United States, resulted in the arrests of at least 443 people over 90 days.

Palantirs second tool, FALCON, is used by agents that lead workplace raids, which increased by 650%during President Trumps first year in office. It has led to the arrest of thousands of vulnerable workers every year just for being undocumented. During a raid in which ICE agents hit 7-11s nationwide, all agents were told to download Palantirs FALCON mobile app for use during the raid.

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