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Activists gathered in Honolulu to protest the deployment of Palantir's data-mining surveillance software in the city. The tool has been used by law enforcement to track and arrest migrants.
Activists gathered in Honolulu to oppose the deployment of Palantir's data-mining software by the city's law enforcement. Palantir's tools combine data from multiple sources — phone records, financial transactions, arrest records, immigration databases — to identify patterns and targets. The software has been used to track and arrest migrants.
The protest is specifically about Honolulu's use, not Palantir in the abstract. The concern is that combining immigration databases with police records creates a surveillance infrastructure where immigration enforcement becomes automated and pervasive. If police can instantly identify undocumented migrants through license plate readers and cell phone data, it changes enforcement from targeted to universal. That's what protesters are opposing.
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