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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
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Exclusive: ICE's Secret Watchlists of Americans
Sparta, Reaper and Grapevine track protesters, their friends (+ others)Ken Klippenstein
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"and prompted Democratic lawmakers to push legislation restricting or banning its use outside ports of entry."
#DHS #ICE #surveillance #Minnesota
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"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
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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
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"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
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"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
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theguardian.com/technology/202…
How ICE is using facial recognition in Minnesota
Mobile Fortify tech being used to scan faces of citizens and immigrants – but its use has prompted a severe backlashGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
"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
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"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
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"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
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January 27, 2026
The murder of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday morning at the hands of federal agents has put wind in the sails of those trying to rein in the Trump administration at the same time it has sent the administration scrambling to regain its course.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
"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
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At Least 32 People Died in ICE Custody Last Year, as Fatal Shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti Spur National Outrage
The deaths occurred during a year of intensified immigration enforcement and preceded recent fatal encounters involving federal agents.Janelle Griffith (PEOPLE)
“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
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Today in Politics, Bulletin 295. 1/27/26
… Trump said today that the killing of Renee Good was worse to him than the Alex Pretti killing because her parents were Trump supporters: “I’m not sure about his parents, but I know her parents were big Trump fans.Ron Filipkowski (Meidas+)
#SupremeCourt will decide on use of warrants that collect the location history of cellphone users
From #Protest to Peril: #Cellebrite Used Against Jordanian Civil Society
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#Jordan #privacy #cybersecurity #surveillance #activism
From Protest to Peril: Cellebrite Used Against Jordanian Civil Society - The Citizen Lab
Through a multi-year investigation, we find that the Jordanian security apparatus has deployed forensic extraction products manufactured by Cellebrite against civil society devices.The Citizen Lab
Amid #ICE raids, some #HomeDepot investors want to know how #LawEnforcement uses its #surveillance data
#ICE Asks Companies About ‘#AdTech and Big Data’ Tools It Could Use in Investigations
Here’s the tech powering #ICE’s deportation crackdown
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#immigration #politics #privacy #surveillance
Here's the tech powering ICE's deportation crackdown | TechCrunch
From phone spyware and facial recognition to phone unlocking technology and databases and more, this tech powers Trump's deportation machine.Zack Whittaker (TechCrunch)
#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
AI and facial recognition to be rolled out as Britain’s ‘broken’ policing system faces sweeping reforms
Officials say using AI will free up 6 million hours of police time – the equivalent of 3,000 officers – each yearAmy-Clare Martin (The Independent)
#EFF Statement on #ICE and #CBP Violence
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#politics #privacy #surveillance
EFF Statement on ICE and CBP Violence
In the past year, ICE and CBP have descended into utter lawlessness, repeatedly refusing to exercise or submit to the democratic accountability required by the Constitution and our system of laws. These violations must stop now.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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.
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
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How Governments Spy On Protestors—And How To Avoid It | Incognito Mode | WIRED
Law enforcement’s ability to track and profile political protestors has become increasingly multifaceted and technology driven. In this edition of Incognito ...YouTube