The ICE situation in Minneapolis demonstrates the dangers of database software combined with pattern recognition and meta-data surveillance such as phone data. I'm sad and disgusted that clear danger to democratic society is not recognized by the general public on scale. Palantir is able to convince German federal officials and parliaments to buy their systems. the same technology that is core component of ICE's executive power abuse.
The double-sad is that even if this is discussed at all, 'sovereignity' seems to be the frame. 'Should we even do it at all?' doesn't exist as a question.
This get's even more substantial with the reminder that Holleriths punch cards have been used in Nazi-Germany for automating political persecution as laid out in Edwin Blacks 2001 'IBM and the Holocaust' from where this illustration is taken - a punchcard of the Amt für Rassenkunde
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