{"id":20161,"date":"2025-09-22T18:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T16:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/22\/documents-offer-rare-insight-on-ices-close-relationship-with-palantir\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T18:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T16:37:14","slug":"documents-offer-rare-insight-on-ices-close-relationship-with-palantir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/22\/documents-offer-rare-insight-on-ices-close-relationship-with-palantir\/","title":{"rendered":"Documents offer rare insight on Ice\u2019s close relationship with Palantir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, little was known about the multibillion-dollar company that handles data for the US immigration enforcement agency. Now, a cache of emails, training documents and reports sheds light on how Palantir helps Ice with investigations and on-the-ground enforcement <\/p>\n<p>Over the past decade, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ice-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement\">Ice<\/a>) has amassed millions of data points that it uses to identify and track its targets \u2013 from social media posts to location history and, most recently, tax information.<\/p>\n<p>And there\u2019s been one, multibillion-dollar tech company particularly instrumental in enabling Ice to put all that data to work: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/palantir\">Palantir<\/a>, the data analytics firm co-founded by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/peter-thiel\">Peter Thiel<\/a>, the rightwing mega-donor and tech investor.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2025\/sep\/22\/ice-palantir-data\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/61a8c6f6907deea84ade20c427b1d3cd2b0a00e1\/0_0_3000_2400\/master\/3000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b7ebe2de3f942abdfed2ebcca1c81c41\" title=\"Documents offer rare insight on Ice\u2019s close relationship with Palantir\" \/>For years, little was known about the multibillion-dollar company that handles data for the US immigration enforcement agency. Now, a cache of emails, training documents and reports sheds light on how Palantir helps Ice with investigations and on-the-ground enforcement<br \/>\nOver the past decade, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (Ice) has amassed millions of data points that it uses to identify and track its targets \u2013 from social media posts to location history and, most recently, tax information.<br \/>\nAnd there\u2019s been one, multibillion-dollar tech company particularly instrumental in enabling Ice to put all that data to work: Palantir, the data analytics firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, the rightwing mega-donor and tech investor. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, little was known about the multibillion-dollar company that handles data for the US immigration enforcement agency. Now, a cache of emails, training documents and reports sheds light on how Palantir helps Ice with investigations and on-the-ground enforcement Over the past decade, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (Ice) has amassed millions of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/22\/documents-offer-rare-insight-on-ices-close-relationship-with-palantir\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Documents offer rare insight on Ice\u2019s close relationship with Palantir<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20161"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}