Overview
- Protesters who held a Passover “Seder in the Streets” at Union Square on Monday later marched to Palantir’s Chelsea headquarters at 45 West 18th Street.
- Dozens staged a sit-in in the lobby and refused to leave until the firm cut federal ties, which ended with 15 arrests and court summons at the NYPD’s 7th Precinct.
- New York City Comptroller Mark Levine asked Palantir for an independent third-party human-rights risk assessment of its work with the Department of Homeland Security and sought details on its ICE contract.
- Reporting describes Palantir as a government data firm whose tools help ICE identify and track immigrants, including a $30 million ImmigrationOS contract that tracks self-deportations and visa overstays.
- Palantir has not announced any change to its federal agreements, but the arrests and the comptroller’s request increased public and political pressure on the company.