Palantir employees have also “begged” the company’s CEO to cancel its contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Immigration activists rallied outside its headquarters last summer, and Stanford students flyered Palantir employees as they went in for breakfast earlier this month, asking them to stop separating families. Palantir provides software to Immigration and Customs Enforcement that has been called “mission critical” by the government’s own documents. When it contracts with the government, Palantir’s employees provide “ongoing training and support” to their government counterparts, helping them configure their systems for optimal use. That is why the response from conference organizers to the demand of dropping Palantir is troubling.

Source: The Guardian May 31, 2019 15:00 UTC