> In the past week alone, ICE boxed in a Woodbury real estate agent recording their movements from his car, slammed him to the ground and detained him at the Whipple Federal Building near Fort Snelling for 10 hours. A 51-year-old teacher patrolling the Nokomis East community told the Star Tribune she was run off the road into a snowbank by ICE for laying on her horn. Officers shattered the car window of a woman attempting to drive past a raid in south Minneapolis to get to a doctor’s appointment nearby, then carried her through the street. Feds pushed an unidentified motorist through a red light into a busy intersection, reportedly fired projectiles at a pedestrian walking “too slowly” in a crosswalk and shoved Minneapolis City Council President Elliott Payne while he was observing their actions from a public sidewalk.

You can read the full thing here: https://www.startribune.com/have-yall-not-learned-federal-ag...

I live in Minnesota. This is my backyard.

Palantir is the main software vendor for Europol. Equally pretty much all the 1984 proposals for age or id online verification that are being massaged into existence (both in the UK and pushed by the European Commission) have their fingers all over them.

They sell pre-crime and opinion control to our democratic leaders and apparently everyone in Davos loves it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_boomerang

But it does say they have been working with ICE for “years” in the article. What is not really clear to me is was the app made worse recently, was it originally commissioned under trump?

Nothing about that changes that they should not be working with ICE and they deserve any pressure they get to cut ties. But there is some history here I am very curious about.

All of that being said, I am concerned about how this will be turned around and used in more than just ICE and targeting everyone. Especially since we can be sure this will be used in largely blue big cities.

If you ask about my personal opinion - it is an internal problem of US citizens, and they need to fix it.

At first you'll learn about something horrible in the past and think, How could people let that happen, yet alone participate in it? Well, its spelled out pretty neatly here.

Some people don't care - its "them" being targeted (jews, tutsi, immigrants), not "us". Some people care, but not in the way you'd think - they agree with the actions. Some people just wash their hands - I was only following orders, I was only working for Palantir. Some will be dismissive or downplay what is happening: its no big deal, its overblown, its being exaggerated and distorted by Radical Left-Wing Terrorists™.

This is how bad things happen.

There is a sickness curdling in the dark corners of Silicon Valley. These people need to be humiliated for being the sniveling, authoritarian toads that they are.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/comments/1qbawlr/minnea...

What constitutes this "high value"? & valuable to who, ICE agents with an itchy trigger finger?

Is this the new social credit?

Those are the two ways of thinking I've noticed.

There is a list of suspects. It does not say this is sourced by Palantir, but it is at least consumed. [1]

It puts flag on a map where the list says the persons(s) may be. Based on addresses listed in government documents.

It indicates the lists ranking of importance. And whatever links to crimes done or crimes suspected of.

ICE leadership can add priority meta data to the list.

This is not 2026 hyper advanced software. And the government paying huge money for it well that is just public procurement.

I mean imagine

[1] The list itself being pulled from several data sources.

IBM and the holocaust

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

Let me tell you a story. When I was young, just out of college, I worked for a tech startup. The tech startup was a mapping company. At some point I overheard the company CEO talking about how the software I built was being used. I thought it was being used to help track miners and equipment working in mines so that if there is an accident, they know where all the people and equipment are so they can be saved.

I learned by overhearing him that the software was being used in the Iraq war to track people to kill. I wasn't supposed to know since I didn't have a security clearance to know.

I quit that job over this.

I told this story because there are certainly employees there that don't have the clearance to know what is happening. But the reporting is making it clear. You can quit your job. They can't function without you.

Congress and Supreme court ought to be reigning the executive branch and enforcing citizen rights according to constitution and bill of rights.

The thing is, I know palantir engineers are well paid. Money warps people's brains. It's much easier enable evil if you can go back to a home you own in Silicon Valley.

Why am I being downvoted? Has HN been invaded by Trump's scum too?