Heres the tech powering ICEs deportation crackdown | TechCrunch
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- ICE has signed a $3.75 million contract with facial recognition company Clearview AI.
- In September 2024, ICE signed a contract worth $2 million with Israeli spyware maker Paragon Solutions.
- The Biden administration issued a “stop work order,” putting the contract under review to make sure it complied with an executive order on the government’s use of commercial spyware.
- In December, American private equity giant AE Industrial purchased Paragon, with a plan to merge it with cybersecurity company Red Lattice.
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