WASHINGTON — ICE wants to build voice profiles of the tens of thousands of people it locks up—out of millions of phone calls already sitting in its archives. Then a would-be contractor asked how long those prints would be kept.
“ICE has not specified a retention period for voice profiles at this RFI stage,” the agency answered.
That line is one of 133 answers ICE posted Oct. 27, when it amended its request for information to add a vendor Q&A (below) and confirm a deadline pushed from Oct. 26 to Oct. 29.
The buyer is ICE’s Office of the Chief Information Officer, shopping for Enforcement and Removal Operations for a product called “Integrated SI-Powered Detention Communications and Video Intelligence Suite” detailed below in government documents: