"As Immigration and Customs Enforcement carries out raids across the country, the agency is working rapidly to expand an online surveillance system that could potentially track millions of users on the web. Federal records uncovered by The Lever reveal that ICE is paying $5.7 million to use an AI-powered social media monitoring platform called Zignal Labs, something Will Owen, the communications director at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP), calls an "assault" on democracy and free speech."
"The "real-time intelligence" platform is capable of ingesting and analyzing vast amounts of publicly available data, like social media posts, according to its website. In a pamphlet shared by The Lever, Zignal Labs says it uses machine learning, computer vision, and optical character recognition to analyze more than 8 billion posts per day in over 100 languages. This allows it to process and sort data into "curated detection feeds" that ICE could use to flag individuals for deportation."
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is expanding an online surveillance system that could potentially track millions of web users. Federal records show ICE committed $5.7 million to access Zignal Labs, an AI-powered social media monitoring platform. The platform ingests publicly available data and uses machine learning, computer vision, and optical character recognition to analyze more than 8 billion posts per day in over 100 languages. The system sorts data into curated detection feeds that could flag individuals for deportation. The platform can capture geolocated images and videos and provides real-time intelligence derived from public social media activity.
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