soc.octade.net is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.
This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.
Bluesky Corporation have just started hosting and verified the US agency ICE:
https://bsky.app/profile/icegov.bsky.social
In other words, Bluesky are collaborating with racist violent thugs and murderers.
How to Film #ICE - Wired has a Guide
Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact,,,,
Healthcare Workers Freed a Patient From #ICE 🖤
"When Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents brought a detainee to a #California hospital in 2025, they didn’t know they would leave empty-handed. Using capacity they built over months of organizing, Healthcare workers intervened quickly to protect and ultimately free their patient from the clutches of federal secret police...."
https://www.blackrosefed.org/hospital-organizing-against-ice/
#USA #Refugees #Healthcare #Resistance #HealthcareWorkers #Solidarity
The Zine from 404media About ICE Surveillance Is Here!
https://www.404media.co/icezine/
"You are holding a zine about the surveillance tools used by ICE, and what we have learned so far about how you can resist this technology.
This zine was reported and written by 404 Media, a journalist-owned investigative website and now, we suppose, a print publication. Our status as a small outfit of reporters who own the means of production (a website), means that we have the freedom to report on the topics we believe are the most important. For the last year, that has been Donald Trumpʼs mass deportation
campaign, and the technology powering it."
PDF Zine: https://www.404media.co/content/files/2026/02/404ICEZINE.pdf
Santa Clara County may ditch camera vendor amid privacy issues
Santa Clara County officials signaled growing distrust with Flock Safety, a company that sells license plate reading cameras to cities across California, over concerns the cameras are being used by federal immigration authorities.
#SiliconValley #California #FlockSafety #surveillance #privacy #ice #technology #tech
https://sanjosespotlight.com/santa-clara-county-may-ditch-camera-vendor-amid-privacy-issues/
Electronic Frontier Foundation is backing the ICE Out of Our Faces Act, a bill to ban biometric surveillance by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/yes-ice-out-my-face-act
The 4th Amendment is Not for Sale!
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4639
Location Data Brokers - HOPE XVI (2025)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kqkL4yr6bVU
* Legislation needed on Federal Level to protect #privacy (#Wyden)
* SDK harvests location data
#hackersOnPlanetEarth #2600
It's all Gravy - "where we go is who we are"
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-finalizes-order-prohibiting-gravy-analytics-venntel-selling-sensitive-location-data
#DigitalRedLining #DHS #ICE #EFF #DataBroker #SurveillanceCapitalism
All browsing through Tor Browser for Mobile (with a Password Manager when needed), all messaging through Signal, solves the problem of malware location-spying Apps. @torproject
#ICE #fascism #privacy #europe #eu #datenschutz
Autralia is handing over the biometric data of their citizens to the US. To ICE and other parts of "law enforcment", border control probably to anyone who wants it.
The EU is in negotiations to do the same. The US wants it to be done by 31 December this year. That's their deadline. No acces to ESTA after that, without giving them acces to the biometric data of our citizens.
The Australians were not being told about this.
#Facialrecognition #ICE #surveillance –
„This may be another reason so many immigration officers are masked while on duty: They know better than we do what it means to show one’s face. In Minneapolis and elsewhere, agents now carry tools of surveillance into the field, just as they do their guns.“ David Wallace-Wells
This will be the last #Mastodon post that will be bridged to #Bsky!
Choosing another protocol, okay sure we can work with that. But hosting and even verifying criminal orgs like #ICE is just a spit in the face
Almost everything is PUBLIC on Bsky, It's not a viable decentralized alternative, since hosting it all yourself would bankrupt almost anyone
So if you want to keep following me, please do join the #Fediverse https://mstdn.social/invite/C3pBKk4Y
Or better, host your own!
https://fediverse.party
404 Media: Our Zine About ICE Surveillance Is Here;
PDFs in both English and Spanish available for downloading. @404mediaco
https://www.404media.co/icezine/
#resist #ICE #surveillance
Our Zine About #ICE #Surveillance Is Here
We are very proud to present 404 Media’s zine on the surveillance technology used by #Immigrations and #Customs Enforcement. While we have always covered surveillance and #privacy, for the last year, you may have noticed that we have spent an outsized amount of our attention and time reporting on the ways technology companies are powering Donald Trump’s #deportation raids.
#Trump
"What we are witnessing in America is technofascism. This is fascism partnered with advanced surveillance technologies. And this is what we see playing out in Minneapolis in real time, and with one company playing a pre-eminent role: Palantir.
It’s not just Palantir. We’ve seen other data-harvesting monopolies and Silicon Valley companies paying homage to Trump: Meta and Google and OpenAI and Oracle and Amazon and Nvidia, many of which have financial and other links to Thiel. Palantir is the very tip of this extremely poisonous spear.
What is happening in Minneapolis is a trial balloon. It’s where Trump is testing the limits of his power. That includes his ability to suppress dissent, to create an atmosphere of fear and intimidation, to break people’s will. And surveillance is at the heart of this.
It’s no coincidence that ICE officers wear masks. For them, privacy is impunity. That’s what the killing of Alex Pretti showed last week: that no one would be held to account. But for everyone else, there was another lesson: that there is nowhere to hide.
Personal data is the key to Trump’s political project. It’s an essential part of ICE’s work, the foundation for what is now under construction, and Minneapolis is where you can see it being built: an authoritarian surveillance state."
#USA #Trump #Palantir #TechnoFascism #Fascism #UK #Reform #ICE #Surveillance #PoliceState
Privacy Guides' Program Director @jonah gave an amazing speech last night in our weekly livestream!
It's a truly moving speech,
and an incredibly important statement in our current troubled times.
Fighting for privacy rights is a battle for human rights. Nobody lives in a vacuum.
We must build our communities to fight collectively 💛✊
Please watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ5_4Li9Gsc
#USpol #HumanRights #Privacy #ICEout #ICE #MassSurveillance #Minnesota #StandWithMinnesota
"Ms. Cleland was one of at least seven American citizens told by ICE agents this month that they were being recorded with facial recognition technology in and around Minneapolis, according to local activists and videos posted to social media, which were verified by The New York Times. None had given consent for their faces to be recorded.
Facial recognition is just one technology tool that ICE has deployed in Minneapolis, where thousands of agents are conducting a crackdown. The technologies are being used not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track citizens who have protested ICE’s presence, said three current and former officials of the Department of Homeland Security who were not authorized to discuss confidential matters.
ICE is using two facial recognition programs in Minnesota, they said, including one made by the tech company Clearview AI and a newer program, Mobile Fortify. The agency is also using cellphone and social media tools to monitor people’s online activity and potentially hack into phones. And agents are tapping into a database, built by the data analytics company Palantir, that combines government and commercial data to identify real-time locations for individuals they are pursuing, the current and former officials said.
“The technologies are being deployed, or appear to be deployed, in a much more aggressive way than we have seen in the past,” said Nathan Freed Wessler, a lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union, which has sued the Homeland Security Department over the immigration operation in Minneapolis. “The conglomeration of all these technologies together is giving the government unprecedented abilities.”"
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/technology/tech-ice-facial-recognition-palantir.html
#USA #Trump #ICE #Immigration #Militias #PoliceState #Paramilitary #Surveillance #FacialRecognition #Biometrics #Fascism
How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/technology/tech-ice-facial-recognition-palantir.html
Agents use facial recognition, social media monitoring and other tech tools not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track protesters, current and former officials said.
While everyone is distracted by the scripted ICE theater the counter-reformation unification of Roman Church and state proceeds stealthily. Rome's agents are slowly converting America to the Imperial Roman religion. This is the true goal of so-called 'Christian Nationalism': the forcible conversion of America to Roman imperial Christianity, a la Constantine and Justinian.
From his bully pulpit the President is proclaiming Imperial Roman religion about their Roman moon goddess Mary, also known as Minerva, Venus, Easter, Astarte, Semiramis, and Isis.
Presidential Message on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception
"In her honor, and on a day so special to our Catholic citizens, we remember the sacred words that have brought aid, comfort, and support to generations of American believers in times of need: Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen."
#President #Religion #Church #ICE #Reformation #Catholic #RomanCatholic #Imperialism #Christian #Jesus #Nationalism #ChristianNationalism
#DHS Says Critical #ICE #Surveillance Footage From #Abuse Case Was Actually Never Recorded, Doesn't Matter
DHS now says that 2 weeks of critical surveillance footage from within ICE’s detention center wasn’t actually lost in a “system crash,” but rather, was never recorded in the 1st place. It is also arguing that, had the footage been recorded, it would be irrelevant because #prisoner living conditions have improved since the time it was supposed to be recorded.
Do Not Use Ring Cameras. Amazon’s Ring cameras are integrated into U.S. law-enforcement workflows. Police agencies can request footage directly, allowing private home surveillance video to be shared with law enforcement.
In 2025, Ring partnered with Flock Safety, further linking consumer cameras to nationwide law-enforcement #surveillance platforms.
#ICE #USPol #Security
https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Ring_Cameras_and_Law_Enforcement_Access
When you build a goon squad, you need to parade your goons I guess.
ICE agents will have a security role at Milan Cortina Olympics
#Politics #ICE
https://apnews.com/article/ice-milan-cortina-olympics-immigration-enforcement-us-110fa4b2066e1fb920dba2a71c3a89e0
"After federal agents shot and killed Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti on Saturday, Palantir workers pressed for answers from leadership on the company’s work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)—and many questioned whether Palantir should be involved with the agency at all. Leadership defended its work as in part improving “ICE’s operational effectiveness.”
Internal Slack messages reviewed by WIRED reveal growing frustration within Palantir over its relationship with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and in particular, ICE’s enforcement and investigations teams. In response, Palantir’s privacy and civil liberties team published an update to the company’s internal wiki detailing its work on federal immigration enforcement, arguing that the “technology is making a difference in mitigating risks while enabling targeted outcomes.”
In a Saturday thread on Slack discussing Pretti’s killing, Palantir workers questioned both the ethics and the business logic of continuing the company’s work with ICE."
https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-ice-dhs-alex-pretti-killing-workers-slack-minneapolis/
#USA #Palantir #ICE #Surveillance #PoliceState #Minnesota #Minneapolis #DHS
A new EPIC report warns that surveillance and ICE-linked enforcement are deterring people from seeking medical care, fueling a US “health privacy crisis.” 🩺
Data brokers, ad-tech tracking, and law enforcement access to health data are eroding trust and driving patients away from treatment. ⚠️
🔗 https://www.wired.com/story/surveillance-and-ice-are-driving-patients-away-from-medical-care-report-warns/
#TechNews #Privacy #Surveillance #ICE #Health #Healthcare #DataBrokers #CivilLiberties #HumanRights #DigitalRights #USA #US #Trump #DonaldTrump #Law #Police #PoliceBrutality
ICE’s Mobile Fortify facial recognition app misidentified a detained woman twice in an Oregon raid 👤
ICE still calls the app a definitive way to determine immigration status, even over documents 📱
Raises major concerns about wrongful targeting, due process, and biometric policing ⚖️
🔗 https://www.404media.co/ices-facial-recognition-app-misidentified-a-woman-twice/
#TechNews #Privacy #Surveillance #ICE #FacialRecognition #AI #CivilLiberties #HumanRights #Security #LawEnforcement #DigitalRights #USA #US #Trump #DonaldTrump #Law #Police #PoliceBrutality
Palantir is developing a mapping tool for ICE that scores targets & flags “high-density” deportation areas 📍
Internal docs show data flows from HHS into ICE systems via Palantir’s ELITE platform 🧩
Raises serious privacy, oversight & civil liberties concerns ⚖️
🔗 https://www.404media.co/elite-the-palantir-app-ice-uses-to-find-neighborhoods-to-raid/
#TechNews #Privacy #Surveillance #Palantir #ICE #AI #CivilLiberties #HumanRights #Security #LawEnforcement #Transparency #Ethics #DigitalRights #USA #US #Trump #DonaldTrump #Law #Police #Policebrutality
#PamBondi’s request was part of a nearly yearlong fight in which the #Trump admin has sought #voters’ private data from #states across the country. Numerous states, including #Minnesota, have not complied, & the #DOJ has sued them.
#law #immigration #ElectionLaw #privacy #InfoSec #CivilRights #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #MafiaState #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung
The #Trump Admin Is Demanding Minnesota’s #Voter Rolls
The #DOJ has urged #Minnesota to hand over voters’ private data. It is part of a national push that has raised concerns about the Trump admin’s motives.
#law #immigration #ElectionLaw #privacy #InfoSec #CivilRights #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #MafiaState #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/us/politics/minnesota-trump-voter-rolls.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
More reasons not to use #Windows.
I know some people do not have a choice, but with #Microsoft turning over encryption keys to the fed (and that will include #ICE via #Palentir) as well as the eager cooperation of companies like #Amazon, now is the time to lock down your own data. The linked article presents the facts, but some of the comments do provides links to guides that can help you.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/23/surrender_as_a_service_microsoft/
Editorial, about apparent murders by #ICE:
"The Trump Administration Is Lying to Our Faces. Congress Must Act":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/opinion/alex-pretti-minneapolis-shooting-border-patrol.html
copy: @renewedresistance #politics #HumanRights #CivilLiberties
"The Trump Administration is once again engaged in a perversion of justice. Mr. Pretti and Ms. Good are dead. The American people deserve to know what happened."
#ICE Asks Companies About ‘Ad Tech and Big Data’ Tools It Could Use in Investigations
A new federal filing from ICE demonstrates how commercial tools are increasingly being considered by the government for law enforcement and #surveillance.
#privacy #adtech #bigdata #tracking #immigration
https://www.wired.com/story/ice-asks-companies-about-ad-tech-and-big-data-tools/