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2026

DHS AI Surveillance Arsenal Grows as Agency Defies CourtsTech Policy Press

2 days agoDHSICEimmigrationlicense plate readerslocation trackingphonesstate repressionwarrantless surveillance

The Stop Cop City RICO Collapse and the Trap of Conspiracy ProsecutionsIn Defense Of Movements

4 days agocourtslegalstate repressionwins

How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters AreNew York Times

4 days agofacial recognitionICElocation trackingstate repressionwarrantless surveillance
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Washington Post Raid Is a Frightening Reminder: Turn Off Your Phone’s Biometrics Now

4 days agobiometricscourtsFBIlegalphonesstate repression

Numerous journalists targeted in attack via Signal MessengerNetzpolitik.org

6 days agohackingphishingSignal

Criminalizing Dissent in the Wake of Renee Nicole Good’s DeathIn Defense Of Movements

6 days agocivil libertiesDHSFBIICElegalprivacysocial mediastate repressionTrumpwarrantless surveillance

DHS Is Expanding Domestic Surveillance While Targeting Efforts to Document and DissentFree Press

Jan 26civil libertiescop watchDHSstate repression

The Government Unconstitutionally Labels ICE Observers as Domestic TerroristsThe Cato Institute

Jan 26civil libertiesDHSfederal governmentlegalstate repressionTrump

Here’s the tech powering ICE’s deportation crackdownTechCrunch

Jan 26FlockICElocation trackingsocial mediaspywarestingrayssurveillancewarrantless surveillance

The FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE, Patel saysNBC News

Jan 26FBIfederal governmentinfiltrationSignalstate repression

The Trump Administration wants your DNA and social mediaPrivacy International

Jan 26borderflightimmigrationprivacysurveillancetravel

ICE Making List of Anyone Who Films Them Ken Klippenstein

Jan 23facial recognitionfederal governmentICEstate repressionwarrantless surveillance

ICE Said Agents Can Enter Homes Without Judicial Warrant, Group ClaimsNew York Times

Jan 21civil libertiescourtsICEimmigrationlegal
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FBI’s Washington Post Investigation Shows How Your Printer Can Snitch on YouThe Intercept

Jan 21corporate surveillance/hackingFBIsurveillancewhistleblowers

Leaked Doc: Homeland Security's Domestic Terror Obsession Ken Klippenstein

Jan 21civil libertiesDHSfederal governmentICEstate repression

She Criticized the Mayor’s Support for Israel on Facebook. Then the Cops Showed Up at Her Door.The Intercept

Jan 20civil libertiespolicesocial mediastate repression

Feds Create Drone No Fly Zone That Would Stop People Filming ICE404 Media

Jan 20counter-surveillance ICEstate repression
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Trump Threatens to Use Insurrection Act Against Demonstrators in MinnesotaTruthout

Jan 15federal governmentmilitarystate repression

‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid404 Media

Jan 15ICEPalantirsurveillancewarrantless surveillance

Police Unmask Millions of Surveillance Targets Because of Flock Redaction Error404 Media

Jan 13Flocklicense plate readerspoliceprivacysurveillancewarrantless surveillance
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Privacy advocates: ICE using private data to intimidate observers and activistsMinnesota Public Radio

Jan 13ICElicense plate readersprivacyproteststate repressionsurveillancewarrantless surveillance

How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICEElectronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

Jan 8FlockhackingICEimmigrationprivacysurveillancewarrantless surveillance

Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods404 Media

Jan 8ICEphonessurveillancewarrantless surveillance
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ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping SpreeElectronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

Jan 7AIfacial recognitionhackingICEimmigrationlicense plate readerslocation trackingPalantirsocial mediaspywarestingrayssurveillancewarrantless surveillance

BlackNest: Inside Canary Mission’s Secret Web of Unlisted SitesDrop Site News

Jan 6doxxingPalestine solidarityright-wing

2025

Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves404 Media

Dec 22Flockhackinglicense plate readerswarrantless surveillance
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Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It404 Media

Dec 9legalphones
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Signal Contingency Plan (Delta Chat with Fanny and Mary)The Final Straw Radio

Dec 7defenseencryptionSignal

The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist ZineThe Intercept

Nov 23ICElegalstate repression

The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records revealThe Guardian

Nov 21FBIICEimmigrationinfiltrationsurveillance

The FBI Wants AI Surveillance Drones With Facial RecognitionThe Intercept

Nov 21dronesfacial recognitionFBIfederal governmentsurveillance

ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants

Good summary of many of the recent surveillance advances and attack escalations against activists
Nov 21FBIICEstate repressionsurveillance

Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with ‘suspicious’ travel patterns

Nov 20DHSICElicense plate readerssurveillancewarrantless surveillance

How Cops Are Using Flock Safety's ALPR Network to Surveil Protesters and ActivistsElectronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

Nov 20Flocklicense plate readerspolice

Judge Rules Flock Surveillance Images Are Public Records That Can Be Requested By Anyone404 Media

Nov 12courtsFlocklegallicense plate readerspoliceprivacy
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DHS Gives Local Cops a Facial Recognition App To Find Immigrants404 Media

Nov 4DHSfacial recognitionICEsurveillance
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You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says404 Media

Oct 31DHSfacial recognitionICEwarrantless surveillance
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Someone Snuck Into a Cellebrite Microsoft Teams Call and Leaked Phone Unlocking Details404 Media

Oct 30phone hackingphonessurveillance
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ICE is building a social media panopticonThe Verge

Oct 25big techICEsocial mediasurveillance

Practical Defenses Against TechnofascismMicah Lee

Oct 25defensephonesspyware

ICE Just Bought A Social Media Surveillance Bot

Oct 23policesocial mediasurveillancewarrantless surveillance

FBI Agents Visit Anti-ICE Protester Ken Klippenstein

Shows us how the witch hunt for "antifa" is beginning to look. Particularly interesting that this person knew no one at the protest, but the agents claimed that "your name came up." Which means he was surveilled in some other way.
Oct 23FBIproteststate repressionsurveillance

How ICE Spies On WhatsAppForbes

Oct 21ICEphonessocial mediasurveillance

Amazon’s Ring now works with video surveillance company FlockThe Verge

Oct 17big techFlockwarrantless surveillance

ICE amps up its surveillance powers, targeting immigrants and antifaThe Washington Post

Oct 17ICElocation trackingphone hackingsurveillance
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ICE, Secret Service, Navy All Had Access to Flock's Nationwide Network of Cameras404 Media

Oct 16Flocklicense plate readerssurveillancewarrantless surveillance
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Inside the War on Antifa Ken Klippenstein

Feds target "affinity" groups, informant networks, the Tides Foundation, and more.
Oct 15FBIstate repressionsurveillanceTrump

The Surveillance Empire That Tracked World Leaders, a Vatican Enemy, and Maybe You

Oct 14location trackingphonessurveillancewarrantless surveillance

Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

Oct 7abortion accessFlocklicense plate readerspolicesurveillance

ICE purchased vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phonesTechCrunch

Oct 7ICEphonesstingrayssurveillance

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day404 Media

Sep 30ICElocation trackingphonessurveillance
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ICE Doesn't Want You To Know Why They Bought a Phone Cracking SystemReason

Sep 29ICEphone hackingphonessurveillance

Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators” Ken Klippenstein

Sep 27organizationsstate repressionTrump

Google Secretly Handed ICE Data About Pro-Palestine Student ActivistThe Intercept

Sep 16big techlegalPalestine solidaritysurveillance

Rayhunter: What We Have Found So FarElectronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

Sep 10counter-surveillance defensephonesstingrays

ICE To Pay Up To $10 Million For Clearview Facial Recognition To Investigate Agent AssaultsForbes

Sep 8facial recognitionICE
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EFF Statement on ICE Use of Paragon Solutions MalwareElectronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

Sep 5ICEphonesspywaresurveillance

LAPD Eyes ‘GeoSpy’, an AI Tool That Can Geolocate Photos in Seconds404 Media

Aug 13location trackingpolicesurveillance
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Feds Used Local Cop's Password to Do Immigration Surveillance With Flock Cameras404 Media

Aug 12FlockICElicense plate readerslocation trackingsurveillance
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Canary Mission: How US uses a ‘hate group’ to target Palestine advocatesAl Jazeera

Jul 15doxxingPalestine solidarityright-wing

DHS investigated over 5,000 student protesters listed on doxxing website: OfficialABC News

Jul 9DHSdoxxingPalestine solidarityright-wing

Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications404 Media

Jun 4big techiPhonephonessurveillance
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Airlines Are Collecting Your Data And Selling It To ICETruthout

May 8ICEprivacysurveillance

Judge Rules Blanket Search of Cell Tower Data Unconstitutional404 Media

Apr 18courtsphones
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Inside a Powerful Database ICE Uses to Identify and Deport People404 Media

Apr 9ICEPalantirsurveillance
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Canada using Israeli spyware (Paragon's Graphite)The Guardian

Mar 19outside the USpolicespywaresurveillance

LAPD Surveilled Gaza Protests Using This Social Media ToolThe Intercept

Mar 17Palestine solidaritypolicesocial mediasurveillance

The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring404 Media

Here is a direct link to the spreadsheet with all 200+ sites listed.
Mar 12ICEsocial mediasurveillance
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US to revoke student visas over ‘pro-Hamas’ social media posts flagged by AI – reportThe Guardian

Mar 6AIPalestine solidaritysocial mediasurveillance

Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular SpyingElectronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

Mar 4counter-surveillance defensephonesstingrays

ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It OnlineThe Intercept

Feb 11ICEsocial mediasurveillance

FBI’s Warrantless Search Ruled Unconstitutional in a Blow to Government SpyingThe Intercept

Highlights the fact that the NSA does in fact participate in surveillance of US citizens even though they are supposted to be focused on ferign threats.
Jan 27, 2025FBIgovernment data requestsNSA

2024

Location Data Firm Offers to Help Cops Track Targets via Doctor Visits404 Media

Dec 10, 2024abortion accessFog Data Sciencelocation trackingphonessurveillance
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Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults and Brothels in GermanyWired

Nov 19, 2024data brokerslocation trackingwarrantless surveillance

Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics404 Media

Oct 23, 2024abortion accesslocation trackingphonessurveillancewarrantless surveillance
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Federal Appeals Court Finds Geofence Warrants Are “Categorically” UnconstitutionalElectronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

Aug 12, 2024civil libertiescourtslocation trackingphones

Top Republican donors fund group doxxing pro-Palestinian college studentsCNBC

May 13, 2024doxxingPalestine solidarityright-wing

Documents Reveal How DC Police Surveil Social Media Profiles and Protest Activity

Apr 30, 2024data brokerspolicesocial mediastate repressionsurveillance

2023

Police seized 5 computers, 2 cell phones in raid on Kansas newspaper

Reminder about why it is important to enable encryption on your computer and phone.
Aug 14, 2023encryptionpolice

The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its CitizensWired

Jun 12, 2023federal governmentwarrantless surveillance
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COINTELPRO 2.0: How the FBI Infiltrated BLM Protests After Police Murder of George FloydDemocracy Now

Feb 7, 2023BLMFBIinfiltrationstate repression

2022

The secret police: After protests around George Floyd’s murder ended, a police system for watching protesters kept goingTechnology Review

Mar 17, 2022BLMFBIpolicesurveillancewarrantless surveillance

2021