404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.

The tool lets ICE populate a map with potential deportation targets, bring up dossiers on each person, and view an address “confidence score” based on data sourced from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other government agencies. This is according to a user guide for ELITE 404 Media obtained.

404 Media is now publishing a version of that user guide so people can read it for themselves.

  • tomiant@piefed.socialEnglish
    241·
    16 hours ago

    First of all, money. Second of all, they might agree with the purpose. Third of all, it might attract people who think it’s cool to work on surveillance tech and feel like spies. Fourth, it might be compartmentalized so that you don’t work specifically on the “whole app”, only parts of it, that are then fit together modularly…

    • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
      1·
      13 hours ago

      The fourth point really doesn’t track because you kinda need to know enough information about the whole to develop a module.

      • tomiant@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        13 hours ago

        Depends on scope and parameters.

        My point is that I can ask you to develop a certain type of cog within specific tolerances that work with a certain subset of other parts in an obscure system, and you wouldn’t know if you were helping build a car or a doomsday machine.