French MPs demand explanation over tech firm’s contract to help ICE in US
by Kim Willsher in Paris from on (#737TQ)
Revelation that subsidiary of Capgemini is to help trace and expel migrants in US provokes outrage in France
French lawmakers have demanded an explanation after one of the country's biggest tech companies signed a multimillion dollar contract to help the US enforcement agency ICE trace and expel migrants.
The revelation that a subsidiary of Capgemini, a multinational digital services firm listed on the Paris stock exchange, had agreed to provide skip tracing" - a technique for locating targeted people - with big bonuses if successful, has provoked outrage in France.
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