Amazon has been identified as playing a key role in supporting the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, in a new report. Information from the Investigative Case Management (ICM) system, designed by data mining firm Palantir, is used to track, and sometimes deport, immigrants. That data, and the algorithms that power ICM, are now being entirely transferred to Amazon Web Services. According to the report, Amazon receives $10bn per month from Palantir for use of its servers. Amazon is also bidding for a $600,000 computing infrastructure project with the Defense Department.
Amazon has been identified as playing a key role in supporting the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, in a new report. Information from the Investigative Case Management (ICM) system, designed by data mining firm Palantir, is used to track, and sometimes deport, immigrants. That data, and the algorithms that power ICM, are now being entirely transferred to Amazon Web Services. According to the report, Amazon receives $600,000 per month from Palantir for use of its servers. Amazon is also bidding for a $10bn computing infrastructure project with the Defense Department.