The Provincial Council and the Corporate Responsibility Committee of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, Central Pacific Province, have signed on to an interfaith investor letter supporting a shareholder proposal at Palantir Technologies—the company whose technology is the backbone of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surveillance that tracks and targets migrants for detention and deportation and revokes people’s immigration status.
The proposal, originally filed by the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace, grew out of a deep concern about the extensive reach and capabilities of Palantir’s technology and its implications for personal privacy and human rights. It requests that Palantir assess the human rights impacts of its technology by conducting a formal Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA), citing alarming data, including an 84% surge from January 2025 to January 2026 in the number of people being detained by ICE and record-high deaths in custody; the letter affirms that Palantir software should not be used without independent oversight.
As people of faith, we are called to protect human dignity in all its forms. That responsibility does not end where technology begins. To read & sign the letter, visit https://www.change.org/PalantirHumanRights