Ricard Martínez

Ricard Martínez is the director of the Chair of Privacy and Digital Transformation at the University of Valencia, known for his outspoken criticism of surveillance technologies and their implications on human rights. He has described the use of the Immigration Lifecycle Operating System, developed for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement by Palantir, as an 'aberration' and a significant violation of human rights. Martínez argues that such systems represent an extreme form of social control and undermine the dignity and rights of individuals, especially immigrants.