How Trump’s mass deportation plan can use AI to extend immigration crackdown – CNBC
The Department of Homeland Security allocated $5 million in its 2025 budget to open an AI Office, and DHS Secretary… read more
‘FYI. A Warrant Isn’t Needed’: Secret Service Says You Agreed To Be Tracked With Location Data – 404 Media
Officials inside the Secret Service clashed over whether they needed a warrant to use location data harvested from ordinary apps… read more
‘I felt like I was a prisoner’: The rapid rise of US immigration authorities’ electronic surveillance programs – Coda
Across the U.S., a surveillance system tracking the movements of tens of thousands of people seeking refuge or permanent residency… read more
ICE Is Grabbing Data From Schools and Abortion Clinics – Wired
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are using an obscure legal tool to demand data from elementary schools, news organizations,… read more
Inside Fog Data Science, the Secretive Company Selling Mass Surveillance to Local Police – EFF
A data broker has been selling raw location data about individual people to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies,… read more
How the Federal Government Buys Our Cell Phone Location Data – EFF
Over the past few years, data brokers and federal military, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies have formed a vast, secretive… read more
The Most Surveilled Place in America – The Markup
The federal government has spent billions on border surveillance technology for the past three decades — and that despite these… read more
ICE investigators used a private utility database covering millions to pursue immigration violations – Washington Post
ICE’s use of the private database is another example of how government agencies have exploited commercial sources to access information… read more
20 Years After 9/11, Surveillance Has Become a Way of Life – Wired
It’s harder to get lost amid constant tracking. It’s also harder to freely gather when the public spaces between home… read more
Thousands of ICE Employees Have Access to Massive, Nationwide License Plate-Tracking System – Gizmodo
Hat-tip Rita Premo! The ACLU of Northern California wrote the records show that more than 9,000 ICE officers have been… read more