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 …
Lead Data Scientist, activist, survivor. Was actually assaulted by an actual right-wing terrorist. Opinions belong only to me, especially the bad ones. she/they
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Emily G Retweeted Jeff Larson
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 …
Emily G added,
The Risk Classification Assessment (RCA) module appears to be part of the ENFORCE Alien Removals Module (EARM 5.0). EARM is itself an interface to the Enforcement Integrated Database.pic.twitter.com/ldXIWNI7Ob
RCA 1.0 was deployed in February 2013. Out of the box, it was skewed heavily towards detentions.pic.twitter.com/WnPVMW7L6i
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.
How do we make it unacceptably costly for the dirty companies to continue to do business? Refuse to hire engineers who used to work there? They still have their own ecosystem :/
There's so little crossover and it's so hard to cross over and I have no idea.
Most of the people I went to high school with who were computer-inclined now work as SWE at government contractors. My intuition is that there are more people, globally, developing code at places that no one would describe as Tech with a capital T than there are in Tech itself.
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