ICE is reportedly using a Palantir database to compile dossiers on protestors

An attorney representing protestors said this infringes on First Amendment rights. Ryan Murphy/Getty Images As revealed by unsealed court documents, Department of Homeland Security agents are allegedly creating dossiers on those that are accused of observing or protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. As first reported by Wired, these DHS files on protestors reportedly include sensitive info like photos and license plate numbers and are stored in a database built by Palantir called Investigative Case Management.

The new information comes from a partially unsealed court filing about a January ICE operation that took place in Maine, according to Wired. The filing is part of a class action lawsuit, which led to a redacted version becoming available to the public on Friday and revealing the purported database of ICE protestors. According to the lawsuit, DHS agents would track and intimidate observers or protestors, sometimes by driving by their homes or labeling them as "Threat to Law Enforcement, Professional Protestor." In one example, an agent reportedly called one of the plaintiffs on her cell and suggested that she tell her spouse "not to do anything like that in the future because people who are doing things like that might get added to a domestic terrorism watchlist." The lawyers representing the plaintiffs said that this sort of database creates a chilling effect on the First Amendment rights of protestors.

On the other side, a DHS spokesperson told Wired that the case was "meritless" and denied the existence of such a database that labels and tracks "domestic terrorists.".

一位代表抗议者的律师表示，这侵犯了第一修正权。Ryan Murphy/Getty Images 根据未密封的法院文件披露，美国国土安全部特工涉嫌为那些被指控观察或抗议移民和海关执法局（ICE）的人员建立档案。据Wired首次报道，这些关于抗议者的国土安全部档案 reportedly 包括照片和车牌号等敏感信息，并存储在一个由Palantir构建的名为“调查案件管理”的数据库中。这一新信息来自一份部分未密封的法院文件，涉及今年1月在缅因州进行的一次ICE行动，据Wired报道。该文件是集体诉讼的一部分，该诉讼导致一份经过编辑的版本于周五向公众公开，并揭示了据称的ICE抗议者数据库。根据诉讼，国土安全部特工会追踪和恐吓观察者或抗议者，有时通过驾车经过他们的家或将其标记为“对执法的威胁，专业抗议者”。在一个例子中，一名特工 reportedly 拨打了一名原告的手机，并建议她告诉她的配偶“以后不要做类似的事情，因为做类似事情的人可能会被列入国内恐怖主义监视名单”。代表原告的律师表示，这种数据库对抗议者的第一修正权产生了寒蝉效应。另一方面，国土安全部发言人告诉Wired，该案件“毫无根据”，并否认存在这样一个标记和追踪“国内恐怖分子”的数据库。