Agents filed people who filmed arrests into a Palantir database.
Wired reported on Friday that homeland security agents built dossiers on people watching immigration arrests. One agent tagged two of them a threat to law enforcement and ran their faces through a search app. The claims come from a lawsuit, and the department calls them meritless.
Why it mattersFace search turns a photograph of a bystander into a lasting government file. The same tools sold for case work are now matching people at protests.
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