Palantir builds software that fuses disparate government and corporate databases into a single searchable interface for analysts. Its Gotham platform is used across defense and intelligence; Foundry powers enterprise and agency data operations. Seeded in part by the CIA's venture arm, it has become central to ICE's deportation apparatus.
Palantir's case-management systems have been central to ICE operations targeting people for arrest and removal. Amnesty International warned the work risks contributing to human-rights violations.
Palantir quietly ran predictive-policing programs feeding person and location data into risk scores criticized for automating and entrenching racial bias.
Palantir took a contract to build ICE a system for near-real-time tracking to accelerate deportations — the most explicit surveillance-for-removal product yet.