Palantir Held Another ‘Hack Week.’ This Time, the Focus Was ICE
Palantir Held Another ‘Hack Week.’ This Time, the Focus Was ICE
Palantir 再次举办“黑客周”，此次焦点在于美国移民及海关执法局 (ICE)
Palantir hosted a hack week this spring to try to turn internal consternation over the company’s work with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) into clearer oversight tools for products used in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, according to material reviewed by WIRED.
据《连线》(WIRED) 审阅的资料显示，Palantir 在今年春天举办了一场“黑客周”活动，旨在将公司内部对于其与美国国土安全部 (DHS) 及移民及海关执法局 (ICE) 合作的担忧，转化为针对特朗普政府移民打击行动所用产品的更明确的监管工具。
The new tools provide organizations, including DHS and ICE, more information on how their workers use Palantir software. Organizations can set up alerts for “concerning behavior,” like exfiltrating datasets, and search the session logs of individual users. They also allow organizations to see which users have viewed specific sets of information.
这些新工具为包括 DHS 和 ICE 在内的机构提供了更多关于其员工如何使用 Palantir 软件的信息。机构可以针对“令人担忧的行为”（如窃取数据集）设置警报，并搜索单个用户的会话日志。它们还允许机构查看哪些用户查阅了特定的信息集。
Palantir declined to comment.
Palantir 拒绝置评。
Palantir regularly holds hack weeks, challenging engineers from across the company to experiment with and solve problems in its products. This hack week focused on Palantir’s work with DHS and ICE, which has come under fire from both external critics and workers who fear the company’s tools are empowering the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Palantir 定期举办黑客周，挑战公司各地的工程师去尝试并解决其产品中的问题。本次黑客周聚焦于 Palantir 与 DHS 和 ICE 的合作，该合作一直受到外部批评人士以及公司内部员工的抨击，他们担心公司的工具正在助长特朗普政府的移民打击行动。
“This effort embodies the culture of the Palantir that I choose to work at,” Ted Mabrey, head of Palantir’s commercial business, wrote in an email to staff in early May. “You have the option to slam cynical emojis in slack channels, distrust your colleagues, and choose to think that narrative-motivated outsiders lying about Palantir’s work are more honest than the people showing up to do that work every day. Or you can have the courage to engage and innovate.”
“这一努力体现了我所选择工作的 Palantir 的文化，”Palantir 商业业务负责人 Ted Mabrey 在 5 月初发给员工的一封电子邮件中写道。“你可以选择在 Slack 频道里发些愤世嫉俗的表情符号，不信任你的同事，并认为那些动机不纯、对 Palantir 的工作撒谎的局外人，比每天实实在在工作的人更诚实。或者，你可以有勇气去参与并创新。”
Bringing together employees from across Palantir, this year’s hack week focused on building new tools to provide additional oversight over user behavior on platforms like Foundry, the company’s data integration and analysis tool.
今年的黑客周汇集了 Palantir 各地的员工，重点在于构建新工具，以便对 Foundry（该公司的数据集成与分析工具）等平台上的用户行为进行额外监管。
Palantir’s work with ICE has grown enormously over the last year. Last year, WIRED reported that ICE paid the company $30 million to build a product called “ImmigrationOS” that would provide “near real-time visibility” on self-deportations out of the US. It’s also been reported that the company built a separate tool called Enhanced Leads Identification & Targeting for Enforcement (ELITE) that creates maps of individuals who have been targeted for deportation.
过去一年，Palantir 与 ICE 的合作规模大幅增长。去年，《连线》报道称，ICE 向该公司支付了 3000 万美元，用于开发一款名为“ImmigrationOS”的产品，该产品旨在提供关于美国境内“自愿遣返”的“近乎实时的可见性”。另有报道称，该公司还开发了另一款名为“执法增强线索识别与定位”(ELITE) 的工具，用于绘制被列为遣返目标的人员地图。
Some of the new tools created during hack week have already been deployed, with others set to roll out later this year, according to an email reviewed by WIRED. (“These tools materially expand the usability of Audit logs and checkpoints,” wrote one team lead, “not just on [Palantir’s DHS contract], but anywhere Foundry operates in high-sensitivity environments.”)
据《连线》审阅的一封电子邮件显示，黑客周期间创建的一些新工具已经部署，其他工具计划于今年晚些时候推出。（一位团队负责人写道：“这些工具实质性地扩展了审计日志和检查点的可用性，不仅是在 [Palantir 的 DHS 合同] 中，在 Foundry 运行的任何高敏感环境中皆是如此。”）
“This hack week demonstrated that Palantir can convert internal attention around work [on the DHS contract] into additional platform-level safeguards,” the team lead wrote in the May email. “Rather than turning away from challenging work, commercial FDEs [forward deployed engineers] across the company wanted to jump into the breach.”
“这次黑客周证明了 Palantir 可以将内部对 [DHS 合同] 工作的关注转化为额外的平台级保障措施，”该团队负责人在 5 月的邮件中写道。“公司各地的商业前线部署工程师 (FDE) 没有选择回避具有挑战性的工作，而是选择迎难而上。”
Palantir’s involvement with ICE faced harsh internal backlash earlier this year after Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal agents. Internal Slack chats reviewed by WIRED showed employees questioning the ethics behind the work and demanding more transparency into it.
今年早些时候，在明尼阿波利斯护士 Alex Pretti 被联邦特工枪杀后，Palantir 与 ICE 的合作在公司内部遭到了强烈的抵制。《连线》审阅的内部 Slack 聊天记录显示，员工们质疑这项工作背后的道德问题，并要求提高透明度。
“Can Palantir put any pressure on ICE at all?” one worker wrote at the time. “I’ve read stories of folks rounded up who were seeking asylum with no order to leave the country, no criminal record, and consistently check in with authorities. Literally no reason to be rounded up. Surely we aren’t helping do that?”
“Palantir 能对 ICE 施加任何压力吗？”当时一位员工写道。“我读到过一些人被围捕的故事，他们正在寻求庇护，没有离境令，没有犯罪记录，并且一直向当局报到。完全没有理由被围捕。我们肯定没有在协助做这种事吧？”
Still, Palantir has continued working with ICE. In February, DHS reached a $1 billion purchasing agreement with Palantir, making it easier to secure the company’s products across all branches of the agency, including ICE. The agreement reinforced Palantir’s foothold at DHS and established a pathway for subagencies, like the US Secret Service, to work with the company.
尽管如此，Palantir 仍继续与 ICE 合作。今年 2 月，DHS 与 Palantir 达成了一项 10 亿美元的采购协议，使其更容易在包括 ICE 在内的该机构所有分支部门中获得该公司的产品。该协议巩固了 Palantir 在 DHS 的立足点，并为美国特勤局等下属机构与该公司合作开辟了途径。
On May 6, the company updated an internal wiki on its ICE contracts and announced that it had received its first full task order under that purchasing agreement, extending its ImmigrationOS pilot program into an official product through the spring of 2027. According to public contracting records, DHS paid Palantir $86 million for this extension, which also covers the “modernization and operational capability” of ICE’s case management software.
5 月 6 日，该公司更新了关于其 ICE 合同的内部维基，并宣布已根据该采购协议收到了第一份完整的任务订单，将其实施的 ImmigrationOS 试点项目延长为正式产品，有效期至 2027 年春季。根据公共合同记录，DHS 为此次延期向 Palantir 支付了 8600 万美元，该费用还涵盖了 ICE 案件管理软件的“现代化与操作能力”升级。