Tech billionaire advising Trump might rake in millions with software for mass deportations

[workinclasszero]

Tech billionaire advising Trump might rake in millions with software for mass deportations
Erin Corbett 12 DEC 2016 AT 15:55 ET

Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies, avid Donald Trump supporter and transition adviser would likely profit from the president-elect’s proposed mass deportations, The Intercept reports.

According to a review of public records, the outlet found that Palantir, Thiel’s data analysis company, would likely provide its services to the Trump administration’s deportation efforts.

Already, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement’s Office of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has used Palantir to create its own data mining system called FALCON.

The program’s Search & Analysis System “enables ICE law enforcement and homeland security personnel to store, search, analyze, and visualize volumes of existing information in support of ICE’s mission,” according to the program description. Palantir was paid millions of dollars for providing its services to create and assist in operating the program.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/tech-billionaire-advising-trump-might-rake-in-millions-with-software-for-mass-deportations/

[ret5hd]

1. Hmmm...so he could be to the U.S. what IBM was to Germany.

Not actually doing the dirty work, just helping to get it done more efficiently.

[matt819]

2. Hey, it worked for IBM in the 1930s

Good read: IBM and the Holocaust.

There's money to be made whether you're on the side of the good guys or the bad guys.

[Initech]

3. This is getting scarier by the minute.