ICE at the Winter Olympics in Italy

AP reports:

News that a unit of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would be present during the upcoming Winter Games has set off concern and confusion in Italy, where people have expressed outrage at the inclusion of an agency that has dominated headlines for leading the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

Obviously this is outrages and the visuals of these lawless goons operating on foreign soil feels all kind of wrong, but also, and even worse, I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t arrive with facemarks and pepper spray but with Palantir’s ‘data gathering software’ and other privacy invasive tools. The Olympics are a place that brings people together from all over the world, the perfect opportunity to illegally data harvest under the shadow of “Solidarity fuels our mission to make the world a better place through sport. We can only go faster, we can only aim higher, we can only become stronger by standing together — in solidarity.” Oh, wait that’s IOC’s old motto, the new one reads: “Faster, Higher, Stronger – Together”.

And that leaves plenty of room for ambiguity.