We’re a couple weeks late to this one, but it deserves more attention than it received. As the Washington Post first reported, a federal judge has found that the IRS violated federal law 42,695 times when it handed over confidential taxpayer addresses to ICE last summer. But the raw number, staggering as it is, undersells […]

Palantir's ELITE App: "Kind of Like Google Maps" for Finding Deportation Targets | State of Surveillance https://stateofsurveillance.org/news/palantir-elite-ice-targeting-app-confidence-scores-2026/ #palandir #ice #deportation #technology #surveillance #fascism

ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony
Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/13/ice-agent-court-testimony-oregon

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
March 13, 2026

Details about #ICE officers’ #surveillance tools and arrest goals in the state have come to light in a federal lawsuit that compelled officers to answer questions under oath, offering a rare window into opaque, internal strategies that are generally kept secret and have been driving mass #detentions and chaotic raids.

The class-action suit, filed by Innovation Law Lab, challenged ICE’s practice of detaining people without warrants or probable cause. Advocates said the tactic resulted in widespread racial profiling and unconstitutional arrests, and a federal judge sided with the plaintiffs, issuing a ruling broadly halting warrantless arrests in Oregon.

#AbolishICE
#US #USpol #politics #news #immigration

From Flock to #ICE, Here’s a Breakdown of How You’re Being Watched

'It’s nearly impossible not to be watched these days. It can start right at home with your neighbors and their #Ring cameras—a company that sold fear to the American public and is now integrating AI to turn entire neighborhoods into networked, automated surveillance systems.

Head out a bit further and you’ll likely be confronted by Flock’s network of cameras that not only track license plates, but also track people’s movements with detailed precision. And as the Trump administration raids cities across the U.S. for undocumented immigrants, tech giants like #Palantir are powering tools for ICE, including one called #ELITE that helps the agency pick which neighborhoods to raid.'

https://www.404media.co/flock-ice-surveillance-technology-reddit-ama/

#Surveillance #Data #Privacy #Antireport

#DHS Ousts #CBP #Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders

Department of #Homeland #Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.
#ice

https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-privacy-threshold-analysis-foia/

Good news: the US citizen DHS disappeared from Chicago O'Hare was found, in Wisconsin... not found dead in a ditch, and thankfully alive. But they did dump her out on the street.

ABC7: DHS detains US citizen from Evanston at O'Hare, releases her in Wisconsin after nearly 2 days

"...The family said Naqvi was later sent to a facility in Dodge County, Wisconsin, where she was later released early Saturday morning.

They said her phone was dead, so she had to hitch hike with a person driving nearby to a hotel, where her family was able to pick her up...."

https://abc7chicago.com/post/sunny-naqvi-us-citizen-detained-dhs-chicago-ohare-airport-sent-broadview-ice-facility-dodge-county-wi-released/18693499/

#Fascism #ICE #HabeusCorpus #USpol

#ICE #Phishing: Scammers Are Sending 'Support ICE' Emails to Steal Credentials

https://www.404media.co/ice-phishing-scammers-are-sending-support-ice-emails-to-steal-credentials/

#cybersecurity #politics

#senryu by returning contributor, dl mattila, an American poet and writer who takes pleasure in brevity. #haiku #poetry #ice #heat

#senryu by returning contributor, dl mattila, and American poet and writer who takes pleasure in brevity. #haiku #poetry #ice #heat

ICE has spun a massive surveillance web. We talked to people caught in it

The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools — purchased as its budget has ballooned under this administration — to monitor, apprehend and intimidate both the people it seeks to deport and the U.S. citizens critical of its policies, in the real world and online.

#surveillance #privacy #spying #dhs #ice #technology #tech

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/04/nx-s1-5717031/ice-dhs-immigrants-surveillance-confrontation-deportation-mobile-fortify

A Knock on the Window and a Glimpse of America’s Surveillance Future – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/mobile-fortify-face-scan-dhs-kristi-noem-database-technology/
#usa #dhs #ice #privacy #surveillance #1984

Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist’s Bank and Credit Card Numbers

"Google’s public privacy policy acknowledges that it will share personal information in response to an “enforceable governmental request,” adding that its legal team will “frequently push back when a request appears to be overly broad or doesn’t follow the correct process.”

According to Google, the company overwhelmingly complied with the millions of requests made by the government for user information over the last decade. Its data also shows that those requests have spiked over the last five years. It’s unclear how many of those users were given notice of those requests ahead of time or after."

https://theintercept.com/2026/02/10/google-ice-subpoena-student-journalist/

#google #ice #privacy

#CBP Tapped Into the Online #Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements

https://www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-into-the-online-advertising-ecosystem-to-track-peoples-movements/

#ICE #politics #ads #AdTech #RTB #privacy #AdBlocking #TargetedAdvertising

The IRS broke the law by disclosing confidential information to ICE 42,695 times, judge says

the IRS provided DHS with information on 47,000 of the 1.28 million people that ICE requested — and, in most of those cases, gave ICE additional address information in violation of privacy rules created to protect taxpayer data

#dhs #ice #irs #surveillance #privacy

https://apnews.com/article/irs-breaks-law-judge-finds-2dbe472e46121091a32309bdab6795d7

Hacktivists claim to have hacked #HomelandSecurity to release #ICE contract data

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/hacktivists-claim-to-have-hacked-homeland-security-to-release-ice-contract-data/

#activism #cybersecurity #DHS #politics

Keep on going! 🖤 #Sabotage

Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying #Flock surveillance cameras!

Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage….

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/across-the-us-people-are-dismantling

#USA #Surveillance #activism #Technology #ICE

How a #MutualAid Network Built Direct Support for Migrants Across #Minnesota

“There’s nothing like getting to give someone their rent money,” says mutual aid organizer Ashley Fairbanks.

https://truthout.org/articles/how-a-mutual-aid-network-built-direct-support-for-migrants-across-minnesota/

#US #ICE #Solidarity

More to the point, Fuentes says he can see a viable life as a Democrat if the Trump administration can't be separated from the Republicans.

Which IMO that's a VERY apt assessment on Nick's par, the Dems are effectively just better Republicans.

The Dems STILL are not all aligned on eliminating ICE and many of them probably are OK with tariffs so long as it's not Trump suggesting it.

Nick's literally already sounds like a "we can reform ICE"-democrat ffs.

#NickFuentes #ICE #DNC #RNC #Trump

US federal judge rules #IRS violated federal law by disclosing thousands of taxpayers’ confidential information to #ICE

https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/us-federal-judge-rules-irs-violated-federal-law-by-disclosing-thousands-of-taxpayers-confidential-information-to-ice/#

#taxes #privacy #politics

LA Times:

"...After previously denying it had federal contracts, Flock Chief Executive Garrett Langley admitted in interviews in recent months that the company has worked with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security Investigations. ..."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-03-01/surveillance-company-flock-safety-los-angeles

#privacy #surveillance #bigbrother #flock #ICE

Alt...

Much of the backlash has been aimed specifically at Flock — a heavyweight in the surveillance market that contracts with a reported 5,000 U.S. policing agencies. The company’s data-sharing with federal authorities and cybersecurity lapses have been documented by 404 Media and other outlets. After previously denying it had federal contracts, Flock Chief Executive Garrett Langley admitted in interviews in recent months that the company has worked with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security Investigations. The company has since said that it has severed ties with both agencies, and responded to other concerns by giving communities more power to decide whom to grant access to state or nationwide lookup networks.

#senryu by longtime contributor, John Hawkhead @haikuhawk of Bradford-on-Avon, UK #poetry #haiku #ice #UnitedKingdom

Lawmakers Demand #DHS Define ‘Domestic #Terrorist ’ As It Uses Vast Array of #Surveillance Tools

The move also comes as DHS and its various components purchase and deploy a wide range of surveillance technologies and demand sensitive information from tech companies to unmask people criticizing #ICE.
#privacy #immigration

https://www.404media.co/lawmakers-demand-dhs-define-domestic-terrorist-as-it-uses-vast-array-of-surveillance-tools/

DHS accused of using surveillance tech to track legal observers in Maine

multiple plaintiffs said federal immigration officers scanned observers’ faces and license plates, and threatened to appear at their homes and place them on a domestic terrorist database

#Maine #dhs #ice #surveillance #facialrecognition #privacy #technology #tech

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/23/dhs-accused-of-using-surveillance-tech-to-track-legal-observers-in-maine-00792722

In Thursday’s opinion, the judge used pointed language to describe the #IRS’s verification standard. Under the government’s process, she wrote, #ICE could have submitted a request with an address like “Don’t Care 12345” or simply “00000” & still received a taxpayer’s home address from the agency.

#Trump #law #immigration #privacy #InfoSec #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism

…Taxpayer advocates raised concerns about the data-sharing agreement since it began. Romo’s declaration stated that in thousands of cases, ICE’s requests contained addresses that were incomplete—featuring entries such as “Failed to Provide,” “Unknown Address,” or simply “NA NA.” In other cases, addresses were missing street names or street numbers. In still others, #ICE listed jails, detention facilities or prisons as a taxpayer’s address w/o including the building’s street location.

#law

“The #IRS violated the [#IRC] approximately 42,695 times by disclosing last known taxpayer addresses to #ICE ... without confirming that ICE’s request set forth the ‘address of the taxpayer with respect to whom the requested return information relate[d],’” the judge’s opinion stated.

The case is now before the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, where the government is appealing Kollar-Kotelly’s November order that blocked the data-sharing arrangement.

#Trump #law #immigration #privacy

The ruling finds that #DHS did not follow this #law. The judge wrote that the vast majority of the nearly 47,300 taxpayer addresses the #IRS shared with #ICE in August were disclosed without the IRS confirming that ICE provided a valid address for the person whose records it was seeking.

#Trump #immigration #privacy #InfoSec #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism

Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel

The company has informed some users in the UK they may be part of "an experiment" with Persona, an age verification vendor whose investors include Peter Thiel, co-founder of ICE's premier surveillance provider, Palantir.

#Discord #ageverification #surveillance #privacy #palantir #ice #peterthiel #socialmedia #technology #tech

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/oh-good-discords-age-verification-rollout-has-ties-to-palantir-co-founder-and-panopticon-architect-peter-thiel/

#Metadata Exposes Authors of #ICE’s ‘Mega’ Detention Center Plans

https://www.wired.com/story/metadata-exposes-authors-of-ices-mega-detention-center-plans/

#privacy #PDF #politics

"How do you bring people of all ages, backgrounds, and technical abilities into a mass movement without exposing them to monitoring and targeting by a government—and in particular Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, agencies with paramilitary ambitions, a tendency to break the law, and more funding than some countries’ militaries.

Organizing safely in an age of surveillance increasingly requires not only technical security know-how, but also a tricky balance between secrecy and openness, says Eva Galperin, the director of cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit focused on digital civil liberties. “You may want to limit access to some information to a smaller group of people, and you need to consider the platforms you are using, so that when law enforcement shows up to Google with a subpoena, there’s nothing sensitive it can hand over,” says Galperin. “But you have to weigh that against the fact that the majority of organizing is done in public, with other people, because the power of organizing is in numbers and solidarity.”

There’s no simple set of tech tips that can help organizers safely build a movement while facing that dilemma, but there are approaches, guidelines and tools that can help. WIRED asked technologists, activists, aid groups, and cybersecurity experts for their guidance on how to organize and collaborate in an age of surveillance. Here’s what we found."

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-organize-safely-in-the-age-of-surveillance/

#USA #Trump #Activism #ICE #Immigration #Surveillance #PoliceState #CyberSecurity

#DHS Wants a Single #SearchEngine to Flag Faces and #Fingerprints Across Agencies

#HomelandSecurity aims to combine its face and #fingerprint systems into one big #biometric platform—after dismantling centralized #privacy reviews and key limits on face recognition.
#facialrecognition #ice #privacy #security #facerecognition #immigration #deportation

https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-wants-a-single-search-engine-to-flag-faces-and-fingerprints-across-agencies/

Nebraska company is supplying ICE with surveillance tech

https://flatwaterfreepress.org/this-nebraska-company-is-supplying-ice-with-surveillance-tech/

#HackerNews #Nebraska #Surveillance #ICE #Tech #Privacy #Concerns #Immigration

ICE triples Azure data usage to 1.4PB (Jul'25-Jan'26), leans on AI Vision/Video Indexer for surveillance amid facial recognition, phone trackers, drones. ☁️

Reports challenge Microsoft's "no mass surveillance" stance despite contracts; employee concerns rise as policies clash with ICE enforcement reality. ⚖️

🔗 https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-azure-data-usage-by-ice-triples-as-reports-question-microsofts-connection-to-mass-surveillance-we-do-not-believe-ice-is-engaged-in-such-activity

#TechNews #Privacy #Cybersecurity #Surveillance #AI #Cloud #Azure #Microsoft #ICE #DigitalRights #DataProtection #Ethics #FOSS #US #USA #Police #Trump #USpol

ICE nutzt Handydaten der Werbeindustrie für Jagd auf Migrant*innen

US-Behörden kaufen Informationen von Hunderten Millionen Handys – eine auch in Europa geläufige Praxis……

https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1196728.datenbroker-ice-nutzt-handydaten-der-werbeindustrie-fuer-jagd-auf-migranten.html

#ICE #Trump #USA #Technology #Surveillance #Smartphone #Europa #EU #Überwachung