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fromenglish.elpais.com
2 days ago

ICE intensifies surveillance of immigrants with facial recognition programs, human tracking, and social media monitoring

ICE is acquiring expansive surveillance tools, including biometrics, spyware, and social-media monitoring, raising concerns about targeting immigrants and threats to free expression.
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 week ago

ICE's migrant hunt expands to social media

The initiative, part of a series of recent contracts with technology companies, seeks to expand Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) ability to monitor people through their social media to levels that threaten to violate constitutional rights. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a solicitation seeking private companies to deploy at least 30 analysts to ICE monitoring centers in Williston, Vermont, near Canada, and in Santa Ana, California. The request is for a round-the-clock surveillance operation using the latest technology, including artificial intelligence, to support efforts to increase deportations.
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fromTechCrunch
2 weeks ago

Here's the tech powering ICE's deportation crackdown | TechCrunch

ICE employs cell-site simulators and specialized vehicles to locate, identify, and potentially intercept communications of undocumented immigrants as part of mass deportation efforts.
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fromTruthout
2 weeks ago

Lawmakers Demand Information About Potential Use of Paragon Spyware by ICE

Federal lawmakers demanded DHS disclose ICE's plans to use Graphite spyware that can access phones' location data, photos, and encrypted apps without owners' consent.
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fromWIRED
1 month ago

Security News This Week: Jeffrey Epstein's Yahoo Inbox Revealed

ICE increasingly uses controversial cell-site simulators ('stingrays') to pinpoint targets and collect bystander data, expanding procurement and raising civil liberties and surveillance-oversight concerns.
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