ICE moves to buy more LexisNexis data to feed a Palantir platform
Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to pay LexisNexis millions more dollars for continued access to data it can feed into a Palantir platform, according to newly published procurement records.
What happened
The procurement records report that ICE plans to pay LexisNexis millions more dollars for continued access to data it can feed into a Palantir platform. The data is to support, among other parts of the agency, ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations, the section focused on deportation.
Why it matters
The mechanism here is the purchase of commercially held personal data and its consolidation into a single analytic platform. Each contract is individually unremarkable; what this record follows is the accumulation, because a state that can buy a picture of where people are does not need to build one.