Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to a company that makes “AI agents” to rapidly track down targets. The company claims the “skip tracing” AI agents help agencies find people of interest and map out their family and other associates more quickly. According to the procurement records, the company’s services were specifically for Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), the part of ICE that identifies, arrests, and deports people.
The contract comes as ICE is spending millions of dollars, and plans to spend tens of millions more, on skip tracing services more broadly. The practice involves ICE paying bounty hunters to use digital tools and physically stalk immigrants to verify their addresses, then report that information to ICE so the agency can act.
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TachyonTele@piefed.social 5 days ago
Can i wake up now, please. This is getting tiring.
theneverfox@pawb.social 5 days ago
Tomorrow the Epstein files will be released, 70% of all politicians and most billionaires will be arrested for pedophilia, and we will come together as one to build luxury space communism
Don’t wake me up.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 5 days ago
Luxury communism is wrong even ideologically.
No kind of communism I know aimed for luxury even in theory. You are supposed to spend lots of effort to develop your true self, in some. In others, you are supposed to be only one detail in the humongous mechanism of humanity, aimed for the common good. In others, people should get what they need and give what they can, and luxury is more than they need and reduces what they can give.
Most communisms are friendly to space exploration, I agree, though.