The Billion-Dollar Contract That Seals the Alliance Between Surveillance, Persecution, and Genocide
September 03, 2025
In a move that signals a dangerous escalation in the militarization of digital surveillance, Paragon Solutions, a software company with a notorious track record, has had its billion-dollar contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reinstated. The same company, whose tools are used by mercenaries and governments to persecute and silence critical journalists around the world, is now officially tasked with hunting down undocumented immigrants on U.S. soil.
The scope of the contract goes beyond simple deportation. Paragon's tools are designed for mass surveillance, deep infiltration of devices, and individual tracking. This grants ICE quasi-dictatorial powers to invade the digital privacy of civilians, immigrants, activists, and journalists, monitoring private communications on apps like WhatsApp, locating people in real time, and creating a landscape of terror where anyone can be targeted.
The true face of this agreement, however, is even more sinister. It paves the way for the implementation of Project GR-20, an artificial intelligence software with frightening capabilities. GR-20 goes beyond monitoring; it seeks to understand and predict desires and behaviors through the systematic violation of privacy. Its stated goal is to manipulate the delivery of prices and content, but its architecture is that of a mechanism of total social control, capable of influencing choices and infringing individual autonomy.
The danger is globalized. Since most of the digital services the world uses are based in Silicon Valley and under US jurisdiction, Paragon and government entities like ICE have easy access to a nearly infinite pool of data. This means that the capacity for surveillance and persecution transcends borders, allowing a foreign government to track, identify, and neutralize dissidents anywhere on the planet,a direct affront to the sovereignty of nations.
The cruel irony and moral bankruptcy of the American empire are laid bare by the timing of the contract: a billion-dollar deal is signed with a company specializing in persecution while the US supports and finances a genocide that has already claimed more than 500,000 lives. This is no mere coincidence; it is documentary proof. The same software that persecutes immigrants at US borders can be used to surveil and oppress populations in other peripheries of the world, perpetuating massacres through data engineering.
The question remains: to what extent are we selling our privacy and security for an illusion of convenience? All this so that a search engine or social network can deliver a slightly more "competitive" ad or a more accurate recommendation? The sad reality is that the price of these supposedly free services is our freedom, and the end product is social control.
The dictatorship of surveillance doesn't come with tanks and uniforms, but with lines of code, billion-dollar contracts, and the silent erosion of the right to privacy. This contract will be remembered by history as a landmark in the capitulation of ethics in favor of control, a moment when the world allowed a Zionist corporation and a morally bankrupt government to build digital shackles for future generations. Resistance begins with exposure.
Fuck Ice! Collaboration between Lew Lunbeck and ZWIAN, created 2021, illustrations by Lew Lunbeck, editing e remixing by ZWIAN