Tag: Ice
Over 1,200 students at 17 universities including Stanford have pledged to not take jobs at Palantir unless it stops working with ICE
Some students from elite schools, including MIT and Stanford, have pledged not to work for Palantir due to its contracts with ICE.
Former ICE director and Democratic lawmakers didn’t hide their contempt for each other in fiery hearing
"As a fellow American, I just want you to know that your contribution ... will always be remembered as one that was very ruthless," Rep. Tlaib said.
More than 900 people at immigration detention centers have gotten mumps, an incurable virus that can cause severe brain inflammation and deafness
Mumps outbreaks occur when large groups of people are kept in close contact for long periods of time.
The Grace Hopper Celebration, the world’s largest conference for women in tech, has dropped Palantir as a sponsor over its work with ICE
Earlier on Wednesday, a Change.org petition was published asking AnitaB.org to drop Palantir as a sponsor of the Grace Hopper Celebration.
As another hurricane threatens Puerto Rico, the Trump administration is diverting millions from FEMA disaster relief to ICE
Democrats criticized the move, arguing that the agency had not demonstrated that the reallocation was necessary and that Congress had not approved it.
Palantir workers are split over the company’s work with ICE, but CEO Alex Karp won’t budge despite concerned employees’ petitions
Palantir employees circulated two letters on their concerns about ICE, but Alex Karp says the company is committed to working with the U.S. government
Big data company Palantir renews its controversial contract with ICE that is worth nearly $50 million
Palantir has renewed its contract with ICE, filings show. Activists have been protesting at its offices to ask the company to drop this contract.
Protesters blocked Palantir’s cafeteria to pressure the $20 billion big data company to drop its contracts with ICE
The Coalition to Close the Concentration Camps Bay Area organized a protest at Palantir's cafeteria in Palo Alto to push it to drop its ICE contracts.
Amazon adds fear detection and age ranges to its facial-recognition tech as the Border Patrol looks to award a $950 million contract
Amazon has been adding more features to its facial recognition technology and shrugging off growing protests about use of the tech by law enforcement.
‘Your blood is on the hands of ICE and this administration’: A Detroit man died in Iraq after being deported in Trump’s immigration-...
Jimmy Aldaoud, a 41-year-old man with diabetes who was deported to Iraq, died apparently after being unable to get insulin, an attorney said.