Palantir CEO Alex Karp defends company’s ICE ties and data ethics

Palantir Technologies cofounder and CEO Alex Karp defended his company’s work with US government agencies, rejecting accusations that its software enables surveillance or contributes to human rights abuses. His comments, made at the New York Times Dealbook Summit, come in the backdrop of criticism Palantir has faced due to its past contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the federal agency carrying out immigration enforcement raids across the US.

Palantir has long faced scrutiny for providing data analysis tools used by ICE and…