#ICE Plans to Develop Own #SmartGlasses to ‘Supplement’ Its #FacialRecognition App

…“supplement” the agency’s facial recognition #MobileFortify application, which lets officers scan someone’s face to verify their #citizenship, according to a Department of #HomelandSecurity ( #DHS ) official. Another person who attended a conference where a senior ICE official spoke about the plans also described them to 404 Media.
#privacy #security #biometrics

https://www.404media.co/ice-plans-to-develop-own-smart-glasses-to-supplement-its-facial-recognition-app/

#DHS can’t create vast #DNA database to track #ICE critics, lawsuit says

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/ice-protesters-sue-to-stop-dhs-from-seizing-dna-samples/

#privacy #surveillance

"Lawsuit accuses DHS of plugging DNA database into ICE surveillance machine.

Four protesters are suing to stop the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from seizing DNA samples from Americans arrested while peacefully protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity.

In a complaint filed in an Illinois district court on Wednesday, protesters arrested at the Broadview ICE facility during “Operation Midway Blitz”—when thousands of federal agents flooded Chicago—demanded an injunction to stop alleged violations of the First and Fourth Amendments, as well as the Administrative Procedure Act.

They have accused the federal government of “wrongfully arresting peaceful protesters, collecting their DNA, uploading their genetic profiles to government databases, and storing their DNA samples in federal labs—permanently.”

Out of 92 non-immigration arrests at Broadview, they emphasized, only one protester was convicted. That conviction was based on pleading guilty to concealing a prior felony charge and “had nothing to do with the protests at Broadview,” the protesters said."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/ice-protesters-sue-to-stop-dhs-from-seizing-dna-samples/

#USA #Surveillance #ICE #DNA #DHS #PoliceState

"We Found The Companies Selling Your Biometric Data to ICE"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExvV2mbXc7A

#ICE #MobileFortify #AI #surveillance

#ICE Plans to Develop Own #SmartGlasses to ‘Supplement’ Its #FacialRecognition App

https://www.404media.co/ice-plans-to-develop-own-smart-glasses-to-supplement-its-facial-recognition-app/

#FRT #privacy #DHS #surveillance

Yet, we still don't have money for childcare or education...

ICE Plans to Develop Own Smart Glasses to ‘Supplement’ Its Facial Recognition App

https://www.404media.co/ice-plans-to-develop-own-smart-glasses-to-supplement-its-facial-recognition-app/

#ICE #DHS #SmartGlasses #FacialRecognition #AI #ACAB #Tech

#DHS Demanded #Google Surrender Data on Canadian’s Activity, Location Over Anti-ICE Posts

https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-demanded-google-surrender-data-on-canadians-activity-location-over-anti-ice-posts/

#ICE #Canada #privacy #politics

RE: https://flipboard.com/@lgbtqnation/lgbtq-nation-c65vn37sz/-/a-4SUg1ZtyTsiiLasJYGjm4Q%3Aa%3A3220327925-%2F0

Murderer....

#JonathanRoss #ReneeGood #Fascist #Nazi #ICE #ICEMUSTBEDESTROYED

The Observer obtained Flock license-plate reader audit logs that show #police conducted 117 immigration-related searches of local data from Jan to March. One dept's reason to search: "Obstructing Justice – Suspicious female filming traffic stop & making comments about ICE” https://www.texasobserver.org/license-plate-readers-texas-privacy-advocates/

#privacy #politics #USpol #news #Texas #ICE #tech

Out today: Flock has sold nearly 92,000 cameras to local police departments—including more than 10,000 in #Texas, according to an open source map.

Privacy advocates are determined to bring that number down, and they're starting to get their way. https://www.texasobserver.org/license-plate-readers-texas-privacy-advocates/

#privacy #tech #police #ICE #law #politics #USpol #news

DHS earmarks millions for ‘smart glasses’ for immigration agents

The Department of Homeland Security will allocate $7.5 million next year to using emerging biometric technology to develop “smart glasses” designed to assist federal immigration agents and officers in identifying migrants who are in the United States illegally in real time

#ICE #DHS #CBP #surveillance #privacy #biometrics #facialrecognition #smartglasses #technology #tech

https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/5845998-homeland-security-smart-glasses/

"Last August, 404 Media reported that at a June immigration raid outside a Home Depot in Los Angeles, a Customs and Border Protection agent was seen wearing Meta’s Ray-Ban AI smart glasses, which can record video and use artificial intelligence to pull up real-time data.

Concerned about the privacy implications, I filed a Freedom of Information Act request for a wide range of records about CBP agents’ use of smart glasses, including Meta’s Ray-Ban AI glasses, during immigration raids.

Despite the photographic evidence, CBP told me that it had no records responsive to my request.

A recent scoop by Ken Klippenstein shows the agency was almost certainly lying, or playing a delusional game of semantics to avoid honestly responding to the request.

Klippenstein reports that a budget document shows the Department of Homeland Security is currently developing its own smart glasses for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies. These so-called ICE glasses will enable agents to surveil all Americans wherever they encounter them, and capture their biometric data without their consent or a warrant (and possibly store this data in a growing, centralized database that could be easily abused).

Needless to say, FPF has filed additional FOIA requests about these surveillance tools, and we will report what we learn."

https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/hate-meta-glasses-wait-until-you-hear-about-ice-glasses/

#USA #Surveillance #ICE #Privacy #DataProtection

#EFF Sues #DHS and #ICE For Records on Subpoenas Seeking to Unmask Online Critics

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-sues-dhs-and-ice-records-subpoenas-seeking-unmask-online-critics-0

#privacy #politics #FreeSpeech

Ummm... Is SANS training ICE?

https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/99f8bdc298c34f06bcac9bd7e39b1bca/view

#SANS #ICE #infosec

Alt...

Notification of SANS Training for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement

#ICE acknowledges it is using powerful #spyware

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/07/nx-s1-5776799/ice-spyware-privacy

#Graphite

Google is sleeping with ICE. And they have your data. So, yeah, maybe detach from their services.

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-state-ags-investigate-googles-broken-promise-users-targeted-government

#Google #ICE #Fascism #Privacy #InfoSec #OpSec

Featured story from Gaige Davila: Meenu Batra, 53, is #Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter. She once helped immigrants in the courts.

Now she's languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years. https://www.texasobserver.org/immigration-court-interpreter-arrested-ice-south-texas-airport/

#immigration #politics #USpol #ICE #fascism #Trump #SouthTexas #HumanRights #news

Unbelievable..

Voting for #Trump, supporting Trump, supporting #ICE but complaining when there is an ICE detention center build in their town

"I didn't vote for this" they say

I got news for ya, you did

As long as they don't have to see the terror they voted in and still support

#US #USA #USPol #circus

They say that, but will Apple and Google put them back?

Judge says White House can't 'strong-arm' Apple into blocking ICE trackers

https://9to5mac.com/2026/04/20/judge-says-white-house-cant-strong-arm-apple-into-blocking-ice-trackers/

#WhiteHouse #US #Trump #ICE #ACAB #Politics #Tech

A Protester Threw a Snowball. Federal Agents Responded With Tear Gas and Pepper Balls.

A new investigation from ProPublica and FRONTLINE examines federal agents’ response to protesters and bystanders at the Trump administration’s immigration sweeps.

“We see, just, use of excessive force after use of excess force,” one expert said.

https://www.propublica.org/article/caught-in-crackdown-trump-immigration-ice-cbp-excessive-force

#news #trump #ice #minneapolis #immigration #government

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/17/french-widow-86-flies-home-after-ice-detention-centre-ordeal

This story is wild, and goes to prove that ICE can’t be trusted, and Cops can’t be trusted, frankly nobody in the goddamn “public safety” sector who gets a gun, can be trusted.

TLDR:; During WW2, a French girl and an American GI fell in love. They were separated and went their own ways. In their 80s, they found one another again, and she moved to the US to marry her wartime love. So sweet, right?

He later dies, and then his son, who is a cop, forwards all the mail so she can’t get official documents, reports her to #ICE, where they do him a favor and drag an 86 year old woman into the cold in her nightgown in the dark of morning, shackle and handcuff her, and throw her in prison, where she’s been for weeks.

French government was finally able to secure her release. She was shipped out of this country in filthy rags, unable to even get her clothes.

I wish the Fates and Furies upon Tony and Gary #Ross. May they never know peace in this lifetime.

#ThomsonReuters Shareholders Demand Investigation into #ICE Contracts

https://www.404media.co/thomson-reuters-shareholders-demand-investigation-into-ice-contracts/

#privacy #surveillance #politics #Reuters

#ThomsonReuters Fired Worker For Speaking Out About #ICE, Former Employee Says

https://www.404media.co/thomson-reuters-fired-worker-for-speaking-out-about-ice-former-employee-says/

#CLEAR #privacy #surveillance #politics #Reuters

#EFF to State AGs: Investigate #Google's Broken Promise to Users Targeted by the Government

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-state-ags-investigate-googles-broken-promise-users-targeted-government

#surveillance #privacy #ICE #politics

#TheCrueltyIsThePoint news∶

The govt of #France is pressing #DHS to release the 86-year-old French widow of a military #veteran from #immigration custody after she was detained this month.

#ICE agents detained Marie-Therese Ross in Alabama April 1 after she overstayed her 90-day visa…. Ross is now being held at a federal immigration #detention facility in Louisiana.

[must be one of those violent criminals #Trump claims to be arresting, detaining & deporting /s🙄]

#law
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/16/g-s1-117615/france-seeks-release-of-86-year-old-detained-by-ice

#Trump wants the #USA to become a little bit more like #China, or WWII Germany, while helping car manufacturers with weapons contracts - a stable, government-guaranteed revenue. Bailout as National Security, in other words.

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/pentagon-approaches-automakers-manufacturers-boost-000201193.html

Apropos of #WWII #Germany: while the USA isn’t yet using forced labor, its failing car companies aren’t state-owned, and the legal mechanisms being discussed appear softer than a full-on wartime command economy, one glance at the #ICE detention system suggests the infrastructure for the next step isn’t hard to imagine.

#uspol #fascism

"Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) just inked a $12.2 million contract for an artificial intelligence tool that claims to map out immigrants’ daily routines, habits, and real-time location and categorize them as potential threats, per procurement records reviewed by the Lever.

Dubbed “Project SAFE HAVEN,” the product is advertised by defense vendor Edge Ops LLC as a “question-based AI interface” that uses “persistent passive data collection” to map “patterns of life,” a surveillance tactic that ICE says will identify the “habitual locations, routes, and behavioral patterns” of its targets.

Additional features of the technology described in procurement documents include real-time location tracking and analysis that will categorize individuals and groups as affiliated with ostensible criminal organizations, such as gangs or cartels. That includes building “target profiles” that track individuals’ activity by linking data obtained from Wi-Fi network connections and mobile smart devices, such as cell phones and smartwatches.

A promotional blurb for the tool on Edge Ops LLC’s website claims that Project SAFE HAVEN “transforms the way we identify, locate, and map illegal migrants.”"

https://jacobin.com/2026/04/ice-contract-ai-surveillance-immigrants/

#USA #Trump #Authoritarianism #ICE #AI #Surveillance #Privacy

Texas Observer: Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport

The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years.

https://www.texasobserver.org/immigration-court-interpreter-arrested-ice-south-texas-airport/

#ICE #Fascism

NEW: As Arrests at Anti-ICE Protests Piled Up, Prosecutions Crumbled

ProPublica and FRONTLINE found more than 300 protesters and bystanders who were arrested on charges like assaulting an immigration agent or interfering with law enforcement.

Over and over, the accusations fell apart under scrutiny.

https://www.propublica.org/article/caught-in-crackdown-ice-cbp-doj-trump-arrests-convictions

#news #trump #ice #cbp #LosAngeles #Minneapolis #doj #government

Eeeek!

“Coachella performers are funding the MAGA movement

Coachella is run by Anschutz Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of The Anschutz Corp, which is owned by right-wing billionaire Philip Anschutz.

Money from The Anschutz Corp’s treasury, which includes the profits from #Coachella, is funneled directly to right-wing organizations that support key politicians funding #ICE, undermining #LGBTQ rights, and restricting #abortion.”

https://popular.info/p/coachella-performers-are-funding

US demands #Reddit unmask #ICE critic, summons firm to grand jury

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/trump-admin-hounds-reddit-to-reveal-identity-of-user-who-criticized-ice/

#privacy #FreeSpeech #politics

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116382351108049249

Watch this like a hawk. The result of this battle is going to be massively telling. Not just about Reddit (I personally don’t trust/use it), but about how this fascist regime reacts to resistance from big tech in general. And it will have a far-reaching impact.

#BigTech #Fascism #Reddit #Privacy #ICE #SocialMedia #BigSocial

“A loaded gun”

Letting Minsters bypass Parliament with Henry VIII powers is never a good idea.

But the government did it anyway, by packing the new UK data protection Act with them.

That means a potential future Reform government could easily create an integrated database for use by a British ICE.

https://www.thenerve.news/p/reform-deportation-operation-restoring-justice-data-surveillance-palantir-uk-labour

#dataprotection #privacy #surveillance #gdpr #ice #reformuk #ukpolitics #ukpol

#Wildlife #Conservation #Police Are Searching Thousands of #Flock Cameras for #ICE

https://www.404media.co/floridas-wildlife-cops-are-searching-thousands-of-flock-cameras-for-ice/

#privacy #politics #surveillance #FWC #Florida

#ICE says it bought #Paragon’s #spyware to use in drug #trafficking cases

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/02/ice-says-it-bought-paragons-spyware-to-use-in-drug-trafficking-cases/

#drugs #cybersecurity #privacy #politics

Largest Dutch pension fund cuts ties with controversial tech firm Palantir

ABP, the Netherlands’ largest pension fund, has withdrawn from the controversial AI company Palantir, the Financieele Dagblad reported. Palantir is known to provide services to the American immigration service, ICE, and the Israeli army.

Six months ago, ABP still held €825 million in investments in Palantir. The pension fund for civil servants in the Netherlands has sold those shares, according to FD.

Palantir is globally renowned for its advanced AI data analysis software, which can combine colossal amounts of seemingly unrelated data such as online communications, DNA, fingerprints, financial transactions, travel records, contacts, and surveillance footage. The software is used by hundreds of intelligence and investigative services worldwide to track down all kinds of suspects. Amnesty International has warned multiple times that the use of Palintir’s software violates human rights.

🧵

#palantir #ABP #ICE #USA #uspol #AI #surveillance

https://nltimes.nl/2026/04/02/largest-dutch-pension-fund-cuts-ties-controversial-tech-firm-palantir

How Thomson #Reuters Powers #ICE and #Palantir

https://www.404media.co/how-thomson-reuters-powers-ice-and-palantir/

#privacy #DataBroker #politics #surveillance

"When I arrived at Ava’s front steps last December, the doorbell went unanswered even though we’d set an appointment. Outside the house, every shade was drawn—as if nobody lived there at all." —Maddy Crowell for Wired https://www.wired.com/story/get-down-get-down-six-months-of-hiding-from-ice/?src=longreads #immigration #usa #america #reporting #ice #journalism #longreads

US Government Uses Advertising Data to Track Citizens Without Warrants

CBP and ICE have spent millions purchasing location data from advertising brokers — enabling government surveillance without warrants or probable cause. This bypasses Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure.

Advertising companies collect vast location data from smartphones and apps. Data brokers aggregate this information and sell it to the highest bidder, including government agencies. Users are often unaware their data is being collected, analyzed, and sold.

Immigrant communities face particular risk. ICE uses location data to track and detain undocumented individuals. Activists and protesters are similarly vulnerable to monitoring.

What's needed:

Laws requiring warrants for location data access

Regulation of data brokers

Privacy-by-design technology: encrypted location services, privacy-preserving advertising

The normalization of constant tracking threatens fundamental rights to freedom of movement and association.
https://newsgroup.site/us-government-advertising-data-surveillance-tracking-2026/
#Privacy #Surveillance #FourthAmendment #DataBrokers #CBP #ICE #CivilLiberties

@eff

"Don't be upset by all this device and internet survielance, it's not a military dictatorship" they used to say before Trump built a personal racist military, and subverted the FBI and Department of Justice, and got military commanders calling his orders the voice of god.

Get off american software, get off Microsoft, ditch Alexa, dump siri, erase windows, leave google, dont use Amazon.

#uspoli #ai #surveilance #handcuffs #pretti #good #ice #democracy