We’ve been covering the technological infrastructure powering Trump’s mass deportations for months by this point. We believe there is a high public interest in knowing what tech companies are working with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), what surveillance capabilities are being used, and how those may contribute to a lack of due process. Because ICE has been focusing disproportionately on targeting Latino people, people who ICE agents assume are undocumented immigrants because they look Hispanic or work at certain locations (tactics that a judge has since blocked), and are enforcing in areas where many Latino people live, we have paid a team of professionals to translate a selection of our ICE coverage into Spanish.
Over the last few months, we have revealed Palantir’s plans to help ICE with deportations; got a peek inside a database that ICE uses to identify and deport people; found that ICE has a new facial recognition app that it is using to identify people in the field; published a list of the more than 200 sites and services an ICE contractor is monitoring; and shown that local police are performing lookups for ICE in a nationwide network of AI-enabled cameras. We also used data from hacked airline GlobalX to find the names of dozens more people on deportation flights to El Salvador.
Before that wave of coverage, we also revealed the tool the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) uses to monitor sentiment and emotion on the web, and ICE’s database for finding “derogatory” material online.
You can find links to all of that Spanish-language coverage below.
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ICE accede a una red nacional de cámaras con inteligencia artificial, según datos
Los más de 200 sitios que monitorea un contratista de vigilancia de ICE
Filtración revela el plan de Palantir para ayudar al ICE a deportar personas
Un vistazo a la colosal base de datos que usa el ICE para identificar y deportar personas
Un vistazo a la base de datos del ICE que busca comentarios “despectivos” en línea
