Palantir builds $30M AI surveillance system linking IRS, Social Security, and immigration data for ICE

| Importance: 9/10 | Status: confirmed

Palantir Technologies received a $30 million contract to deliver ImmigrationOS, an AI platform that integrates previously-segregated government databases including IRS tax records, Social Security files, passport records, and license-plate reader data for immigration enforcement. The system, to be delivered by September 2025, enables ICE to track and identify individuals across multiple government databases. Eight members of Congress warned this creates “a surveillance nightmare” and potential “mega-database” for targeting political enemies. Palantir engineers internally raised ethical concerns about building mass surveillance infrastructure.

Key Actors

Palantir Technologies ICE Peter Thiel Sen. Ron Wyden Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Tags

mass-surveillance data-integration privacy-violations ai-surveillance tech-authoritarianism

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