When your company’s name is straight from a fantasy story about evil surveillance orbs, maybe don’t be shocked when people freak out about your government contract. Palantir is now helping ICE build a system to track “known populations” in scary levels of detail — think Amazon Prime but for humans and with less customer service. If George Orwell were alive, he’d be writing a sequel and suing for royalties.

 

Government Hires Controversial AI Company to Spy on “Known Populations”