I looked into this to figure out who's making this stuff and how it's being funded. A thread.https://twitter.com/thejefflarson/status/1011454007607549953 …
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This is a $6.3M maintenance contract for EARM, among other things, from 2009. It's a safe bet that the maintainer was also the developer.pic.twitter.com/9LP0xoE88O
Electronic Data Systems, EDS, went under in 2009 and became part of Hewlett Packard. It then morphed into DXC Technologies last year.
DXC has $25B in revenue and 170,000 employees. It's not a small fry.
They like working with ICE. And the California Dept of Prisons. And the Israeli government.pic.twitter.com/tFImwBHEtX
This is a massive company operating in a tech industry that is virtually isolated from the world of SV startups.
Our tech industry activism is very good but it won't leave a scratch. These are the companies that are building the really dirty tools.
I mean... Yes. ICE's Risk Classification tool is factoring in your gender id and sexuality.pic.twitter.com/RWICw2elIt
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