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"Two senior national security officials tell me that there are more than a dozen secret and obscure watchlists that homeland security and the FBI are using to track protesters (both anti-ICE and pro-Palestinian), 'Antifa,' and others who are promiscuously labeled 'domestic terrorists.'”

~ Ken Klippenstein

#DHS #ICE #surveillance #Minnesota
/25

kenklippenstein.com/p/ices-sec…


(continued from /10)

"and prompted Democratic lawmakers to push legislation restricting or banning its use outside ports of entry."

#DHS #ICE #surveillance #Minnesota
/11


"The Guardian has confirmed that ICE is increasingly using a smartphone app called Mobile Fortify to scan faces in Minnesota and nationwide, allowing agents to instantly pull biometric data from multiple databases, a practice critics warn risks misidentification, racial bias, and privacy violations, has sparked lawsuits and protests," (continued in /11)

Aaron Parnas

#DHS #ICE #surveillance #Minnesota
/10

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"The US Department of Homeland Security has used Mobile Fortify to scan faces and fingerprints in the field more than 100,000 times, according to a lawsuit brought by Illinois and Chicago against the federal agency, earlier this month."

#DHS #ICE #surveillance #Minnesota
/9


"Simply pointing a phone’s camera at their intended target and scanning the person’s face allows Mobile Fortify to pull data on an individual from multiple federal and state databases, some of which federal courts have deemed too inaccurate for arrest warrants."

#DHS #ICE #surveillance #Minnesota
/8


"Immigration enforcement agents across the US are increasingly relying on a new smartphone app with facial recognition technology.

The app is named Mobile Fortify."

~ Sanya Mansoor

#DHS #ICE #surveillance #Minnesota
/7

theguardian.com/technology/202…


"Five agents tackled him and one leaned on his back, breaking a rib, before they released him. Medical records confirm Pretti was treated for the injury."

#DHS #ICE #surveillance #AlexPretti
/6


"A form titled 'intel collection non-arrests' enabled agents to fill in protesters’ personal information. ...

Sources told Winter and Alvarez that federal agents had documented details about Pretti before Saturday. About a week before his death, Pretti stopped his car to observe federal agents chasing a family on foot, shouted, and blew a whistle."

#DHS #ICE #surveillance #AlexPretti
/5


"Today Jeff Winter and Priscilla Alvarez of CNN broke the story that ICE agents have been collecting the personal information of protesters in Minneapolis. They reported that officials asked federal agents sent to Minneapolis to 'capture all images, license plates, identifications, and general information on hotels, agitators, protestors, etc., so we can capture it all in one consolidated form.'”

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#DHS #ICE #surveillance #AlexPretti
/4

heathercoxrichardson.substack.…


"At least 32 people died in ICE custody in 2025. ICE facilities across the country have faced allegations from human rights groups, immigration lawyers and lawmakers about overcrowding and poor conditions, such as rotten food, which the agency has denied."

~ Janelle Griffith

#Trump #ICE #DHS #violence #surveillance #murder #execution
/3

people.com/deaths-ice-custody-…


"Most of the incidents involve officers firing at drivers during enforcement stops in cities like LA and Chicago. At least 10 people have been struck by bullets - including 4 US citizens. Three people have been killed.”

#Trump #ICE #DHS #violence #surveillance #murder #execution
/2


“DHS officers have fired shots during enforcement arrests or at people protesting their operations 16 times since July, and as in the recent shootings in Minneapolis, in each case the Trump admin has publicly declared their actions justified before waiting for investigations to be completed."

~ Ron Filipkowski quoting Washington Post

#Trump #ICE #DHS #violence #surveillance #murder #execution
/1

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From #Protest to Peril: #Cellebrite Used Against Jordanian Civil Society

citizenlab.ca/research/from-pr…

#Jordan #privacy #cybersecurity #surveillance #activism


#ICE Asks Companies About ‘#AdTech and Big Data’ Tools It Could Use in Investigations

wired.com/story/ice-asks-compa…

#privacy #politics #surveillance


Here’s the tech powering #ICE’s deportation crackdown

techcrunch.com/2026/01/26/here…

#immigration #politics #privacy #surveillance


#AI and #FacialRecognition to be rolled out as #Britain’s ‘broken’ policing system faces sweeping reforms

independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim…

#FRT #privacy #surveillance #UK


#EFF Statement on #ICE and #CBP Violence

eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/eff-…

#politics #privacy #surveillance


404 Media: Police Told to Be ‘as Vague as Permissible’ About Why They Use Flock
Jan 27, 2026 at 9:26 AM

The documents show law enforcement sees themselves as being consistently and universally under threat from the people it is supposed to protect.

404media.co/police-told-to-be-…

#flock #privacy #policing #surveillance #bigbrother


Microsoft confirms it will give the FBI your Windows PC data encryption key if asked — you can thank Windows 11's forced online accounts for that

Windows 11's online Microsoft Account requirement means your PC is automatically backing up its data encryption key to the cloud, and Microsoft says it will hand those over to the FBI if asked.

windowscentral.com/microsoft/w…

#Microsoft #Windows11 #privacy #surveillance #enshittification #encryption #technology #software #dystopia


How Governments Spy On Protestors—And How To Avoid It | Incognito Mode | WIRED

youtube.com/watch?v=lL34WpoETd… #Surveillance #Resistance #Fascism