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Palantir Has a Human Rights Policy. Its ICE Work Tells a Different Story
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Palantir Has a Human Rights Policy. Its ICE Work Tells a Different Story

Electronic Frontier Foundation·Cindy Cohn and Betty Gedlu·about 1 month ago
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For years, EFF has pushed technology companies to make real human rights commitments—and to live up to them. In response to growing evidence that Palantir’s tools help power abusive immigration enforcement by ICE, we sent the company a detailed letter asking how the promises in its own human rights framework extends to that work. This post explains what we asked, how Palantir responded, and why we believe those responses fall short. EFF is not alone in raising alarms about Palantir; immigrants' rights groups , human rights organizations , journalists , and former employees have raised similar concerns based on reports of the company's role in abusive immigration enforcement. We focus here on Palantir’s own human rights promises. At the outset, we appreciate that Palantir was willing to engage respectfully, and we recognize that confidentiality and security obligations can limit what it can say.…

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