Palantir Exec defends the work to monitor the company’s immigration

One of the founders of the start -up accelerator Y Combinator has offered an uncomfortable criticism this weekend of the controversial Palantir data analysis company, which led the company to offer extensive protection for Palantir’s work.

Back and back came after that Federal documents showed that US immigration and customs implementation (ICE) – loaded with the implementation of the aggressive strategy for deporting the Trump administration – pays to Palantir $ 30 million to create What does the immigration life cycle call the operating systemor immigration to help ICE decide to whom to refer to deportation, as well as to offer “almost real -time visibility” in self -predisions.

Y the founder of the combinator Paul Graham shared titles for Palantir’s Treaty of XWriting: “It is a very exciting time in technology at the moment. If you are a first -class programmer, there are a huge number of other places you can work on, not in the company to build the police infrastructure.”

In response Ted Mobrey writes That he “is looking forward to the next set of hires who have decided to apply for Palantir after reading your post.”

Mabrey does not discuss the specifics of Palantir’s current work with ICE, but he said the company started working with the Ministry of Homeland Security (under which ICE operates) “in the immediate response to the murder of Agent Haime Stock from the ZEET in an effort called the son -in -law Operation “fallen hero”S “

“When people are alive for what you built and others are dead because what you built was not yet good enough, you develop a very different perspective on the meaning of your work,” Mabrey said.

He also compared Graham’s criticism with Protests for Google Maven’s project In 2018, which ultimately encouraged the company to stop working, analyzing the images of drones for the military. (Google subsequently signals that Became more open to defensive work again.)

Mabrey called on anyone interested in working for Palantir to read the new book by CEO Alexander Carp “Technology Republic”, which which which claims that the software industry should restore its relationship with the governmentS (The company has been Recruitment of colleges in colleges with signs announcing that “it is for the West” moment of reading. “)

“We hire believers,” Mobrey continued. “Not in the sense of the homogeneity of faith, but in the inherent ability to believe in something more than yourself. Faith is required because 1) our work is very, very difficult and 2) you should expect to meteorological attacks like this all the time; on all sides of the political path.”

Graham then squeezed “To engage publicly on behalf of Palantir not to build things that help the government violate the US Constitution, although he recognized in another publication that such a commitment would have “no legal force”.

“But I hope that if they (they make a commitment) and some Palantir employee one day is asked to do something illegal, he will say” I have not registered for it, “and I will refuse,” Graham writes.

Mabrey, in turn compares Graham’s question “Will you promise to stop beating the trick of your wife’s court room”, but he added that the company “made this promise so many ways from Sunday”, starting with a commitment to “3500 huge thoughtful people who are digested only because they believe that they make the world a better place every day.”