Federal immigration agencies are using a vast surveillance network in Minnesota – from facial recognition technology to ‘stingrays’ that collect data by impersonating cell phone towers.
  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    This is the exact use of the illegal surveillance that Snowden warned us about in 2013.

    If you haven’t heard of this or haven’t actually looked into the details, watch the citizenfour documentary and read about the contents of the disclosure.

    Everyone is spied on all of the time to the maximum extent possible even if you have done nothing wrong, that data sits in a vault (in the Massive Data Repository (it has since been PR renamed to Mission Datarepository)) so if you do anything bad in the future they can simply look at your entire digital history going back to before 2013.

    Palantir is the software that sits on top of that entire ‘Total Information Awareness’ database and lets the various end-users be given intelligence products on anybody, instantly.

    So when they’re scanning your face, somewhere in Virginia there’s a cluster of servers running Palantir’s servers that go through this massive database and generate a report on you with every bit of data that they know (limited by the security clearance of the person asking).