Amazon, Google, and Microsoft turned up at a frenzied industry day for an ICE tool that targets undocumented workers by analyzing surveillance footage, biometric data, and social media information. The contracts for RAVEn are worth up to $300 million.
. Booz Allen Hamilton declined to comment. DirectViz and KCI Acuity did not respond to requests for comment.for 2021, RAVEn has already processed more than 780,000 I-213 documents, which are personal-history forms that ICE agents or Border Patrol officers fill out when they take someone into custody. They can be a deciding factor in whether a person is deported.
RAVEn has also processed more than 55,000 I-9 employment documents from 16 workplace audits, looking for evidence of people who don't have the legal status to work. Last year, ICEas a result of I-9 inspections, but it's unclear how many arrests and deportations may have resulted from RAVEn since 2018.
"The bigger part is dealing with the immigration status of individuals trying to get asylum status in the US. I think that's probably the biggest generative load that they have to deal with," he added. Some of RAVEn's functionalities appear to overlap with an ICE tool called Falcon, which is a customized version of Palantir's Gotham software. The main difference is that RAVEn is being built for ICE from the ground up. It's unclear under which circumstances RAVEn would be used as opposed to Falcon, and vice versa.
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