ICE usa mapas y datos personales para ubicar inmigrantes: cómo funciona la app ELITE de Palantir
2026-09-05
El Comercio Perú
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deployed Palantir's AI-powered ELITE app to identify, locate, and prioritize immigrants for enforcement using sensitive personal data. New agents accessed confidential information before background checks, raising concerns about privacy violations, unauthorized data access, and potential harm to individuals' rights.[AI generated]
Why's our monitor labelling this an incident or hazard?
ELITE is an AI system as it uses big data and AI to infer confidence scores and generate profiles for targeting individuals. Its use by ICE agents to identify and locate people for immigration enforcement directly involves the AI system's outputs leading to potential or actual harm, including privacy violations and misidentification risks. The article reports active deployment and use, not just potential risks, and highlights concerns about lack of privacy impact assessments and possible errors affecting individuals. These factors meet the criteria for an AI Incident involving violations of rights and harm to communities. The event is not merely a hazard or complementary information, as harm is ongoing and linked to the AI system's use.[AI generated]