By: Business Insider
September 2, 2021
- Representatives from Google, Amazon and Microsoft showed up for ICE’s RAVEn technology on a busy industry day.
- The tool uses thousands of sources, including surveillance footage, biometrics, and social media data.
- Contracts for the program are worth up to $300 million, according to documents obtained by Insider.
Amazon, Google and Microsoft have expressed interest in working on a system being developed by the Immigration and Customs Administration that targets people who are not authorized to work in the US by mining social media information and using surveillance images and biometrics. process data, according to interviews and documents obtained by Insider.
Earlier this year, representatives of the three tech giants attended an industry day hosted by ICE to discuss the little-known research analytics tool RAVEn. By the end of September, ICE will award three contracts totaling $300 million to companies that will build and maintain the system through 2025.