ICE Expands Facial Recognition, Iris Scanning, Spyware and Location Tools into Unified Palantir Hub

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• ICE awarded Clearview AI a $9.2 million sole-source contract for facial recognition against a database of tens of billions of internet-scraped images.

  Immigration and Customs Enforcement has awarded Clearview AI a $9.2 million sole-source contract for facial recognition against a database of tens of billions of internet-scraped images and BI2 Technologies successive contracts totaling more than $29 million for mobile iris scanners and access to a private five-million-record iris database.

  Clearview AI ICE

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• ICE awarded BI2 Technologies successive contracts totaling more than $29 million for mobile iris scanners and access to a private five-million-record iris database.

  Immigration and Customs Enforcement has awarded Clearview AI a $9.2 million sole-source contract for facial recognition against a database of tens of billions of internet-scraped images and BI2 Technologies successive contracts totaling more than $29 million for mobile iris scanners and access to a private five-million-record iris database.

  BI2 Technologies ICE

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• ICE awarded Paragon Solutions Graphite spyware capable of remote phone access.

  Parallel awards cover Paragon Solutions Graphite spyware capable of remote phone access and PenLink tools that aggregate real-time commercial location data from hundreds of millions of devices without warrants.

  Graphite spyware ICE Paragon Solutions

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• ICE awarded PenLink tools that aggregate real-time commercial location data from hundreds of millions of devices without warrants.

  Parallel awards cover Paragon Solutions Graphite spyware capable of remote phone access and PenLink tools that aggregate real-time commercial location data from hundreds of millions of devices without warrants.

  ICE PenLink

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• These streams feed ICE’s Investigative Case Management system built by Palantir Technologies.

  These streams feed ICE’s Investigative Case Management system built by Palantir Technologies, which already performs algorithmic filtering across biometric, location, financial and open-source inputs.

  ICE Investigative Case Managemen… Palantir Technologies

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• A separate procurement seeks nearly 30 contractors for continuous social‑media monitoring at targeting centers in Vermont and California, with results intended to flow into the same Palantir platform.

  A separate procurement seeks nearly 30 contractors for continuous social-media monitoring at targeting centers in Vermont and California, with results intended to flow into the same Palantir platform.

  ICE Palantir platform targeting centers

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• The architecture creates a single searchable repository that combines face, iris, device location and online activity.

  The architecture creates a single searchable repository that combines face, iris, device location and online activity.

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• Prior sole‑source justifications and limited external audit requirements leave oversight gaps around purpose limitation and domestic use.

  Prior sole-source justifications and limited external audit requirements leave oversight gaps around purpose limitation and domestic use.

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• Net risk is frictionless multi‑modal identification and tracking available for immigration and broader enforcement with minimal independent review of scale or secondary applications.

  Net risk is frictionless multi-modal identification and tracking available for immigration and broader enforcement with minimal independent review of scale or secondary applications.

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