S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project
@stopspyingny.bsky.social
Fighting to abolish local & state surveillance.
ICE and the FBI are expanding facial recognition into protest investigations. This is a dangerous erosion of privacy and free expression that endangers all of our right to privacy, free expression, and the right to dissent.
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ICE, FBI expand facial recognition use to protest investigations | Biometric Update
Federal use of facial recognition and related surveillance technologies has expanded decisively into the monitoring of domestic protest activity.
www.biometricupdate.com
February 4, 2026 at 7:23 PM
ICE and the FBI are expanding facial recognition into protest investigations. This is a dangerous erosion of privacy and free expression that endangers all of our right to privacy, free expression, and the right to dissent.
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The FBI is using facial recognition to identify ICE protestors from YouTube and social media — a chilling escalation of surveillance against the constitutional right to protest.
@thomasbrewster.bsky.social reports on what’s at stake for protest and privacy rights:
@thomasbrewster.bsky.social reports on what’s at stake for protest and privacy rights:
FBI Uses Facial Recognition To Identify ICE Protestors In Social Media Videos
The FBI has charged multiple people with crimes like vandalism after determining their identities using the controversial technology, according to court records.
www.forbes.com
February 4, 2026 at 7:17 PM
The FBI is using facial recognition to identify ICE protestors from YouTube and social media — a chilling escalation of surveillance against the constitutional right to protest.
@thomasbrewster.bsky.social reports on what’s at stake for protest and privacy rights:
@thomasbrewster.bsky.social reports on what’s at stake for protest and privacy rights:
In a new op-ed for Tech Policy Press, S.T.O.P. Legal Director Darío Maestro examines how the EU's "Chat Control" regulation risks mandating mass message scanning, undermining encryption, and putting the EU-US Data Privacy Framework at risk.
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How Europe’s “Chat Control” Regulation Could Compromise American Communications
Darío Maestro examines Europe’s proposed “Chat Control” and how it could mandate message scanning, weaken encryption, and threaten EU-U.S. data transfers.
www.techpolicy.press
February 3, 2026 at 7:32 PM
In a new op-ed for Tech Policy Press, S.T.O.P. Legal Director Darío Maestro examines how the EU's "Chat Control" regulation risks mandating mass message scanning, undermining encryption, and putting the EU-US Data Privacy Framework at risk.
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“Palantir tools are ICE’s digital henchmen,” said Will Owen, communications director at the non-profit Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, in a statement to the Guardian. “Their revenue may be up thanks to Trump, but no one is buying that they hold ICE accountable.”
Palantir beats Wall Street expectations amid Trump immigration crackdown
CEO Alex Karp hails ‘iconic’ financial results despite criticism over contracts with ICE and homeland security
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2026 at 5:20 PM
“Palantir tools are ICE’s digital henchmen,” said Will Owen, communications director at the non-profit Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, in a statement to the Guardian. “Their revenue may be up thanks to Trump, but no one is buying that they hold ICE accountable.”
“In these times, we ought to assume the worst-case scenario: that every technological layer added to our democratic institutions has the potential to be hostile to civil liberties.”
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Opinion | ICE Is Watching You
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2026 at 5:13 PM
“In these times, we ought to assume the worst-case scenario: that every technological layer added to our democratic institutions has the potential to be hostile to civil liberties.”
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ICE agents are using biometric surveillance and location tracking to target immigrants and erode civil liberties.
Read more from PBS.
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Read more from PBS.
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Department of Homeland Security intensifies surveillance in immigration raids, sweeping in citizens
Department of Homeland Security officials insist their immigration enforcement operations are "highly targeted."
www.pbs.org
February 2, 2026 at 6:15 PM
ICE agents are using biometric surveillance and location tracking to target immigrants and erode civil liberties.
Read more from PBS.
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Read more from PBS.
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
“The latest Department of Homeland Security AI inventory, released on January 28, reveals more than 200 AI use cases that are deployed or in development at DHS and its component agencies.”
www.techpolicy.press/dhs-ai-surve...
www.techpolicy.press/dhs-ai-surve...
DHS AI Surveillance Arsenal Grows as Agency Defies Courts
A Department of Homeland Security AI inventory contains details on new tools used by ICE and border patrol agents in Trump's deportation campaign.
www.techpolicy.press
February 2, 2026 at 6:14 PM
“The latest Department of Homeland Security AI inventory, released on January 28, reveals more than 200 AI use cases that are deployed or in development at DHS and its component agencies.”
www.techpolicy.press/dhs-ai-surve...
www.techpolicy.press/dhs-ai-surve...
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For example, folks are understandably concerned about the surveillance tech that Palantir is providing to ICE
But "boycott Palantir" is not a real tactic. They are not a consumer-facing company
Follow orgs w/ a strategy @conmijente.bsky.social @mediajustice.bsky.social @stopspyingny.bsky.social
But "boycott Palantir" is not a real tactic. They are not a consumer-facing company
Follow orgs w/ a strategy @conmijente.bsky.social @mediajustice.bsky.social @stopspyingny.bsky.social
January 30, 2026 at 4:55 PM
For example, folks are understandably concerned about the surveillance tech that Palantir is providing to ICE
But "boycott Palantir" is not a real tactic. They are not a consumer-facing company
Follow orgs w/ a strategy @conmijente.bsky.social @mediajustice.bsky.social @stopspyingny.bsky.social
But "boycott Palantir" is not a real tactic. They are not a consumer-facing company
Follow orgs w/ a strategy @conmijente.bsky.social @mediajustice.bsky.social @stopspyingny.bsky.social
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I really want people to check in with the organizations that have been pushing back on surveillance for 10+ years.
Just to be blunt, there are a lot of folks who realized yesterday that surveillance is bad and many are suggesting well-intentioned but misguided strategies for fighting it
talk to us
Just to be blunt, there are a lot of folks who realized yesterday that surveillance is bad and many are suggesting well-intentioned but misguided strategies for fighting it
talk to us
“Agents can identify people on the street through facial recognition, trace their movements through license-plate readers and, in some cases, use commercially available phone-location data to reconstruct daily routines and associations.” All surveillance tools people have pushed back on for ages…
DHS ramps up surveillance in immigration raids, sweeping in citizens
The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis is providing insights into the surveillance technologies the government is using in its mass deportation campaign.
apnews.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:09 PM
I really want people to check in with the organizations that have been pushing back on surveillance for 10+ years.
Just to be blunt, there are a lot of folks who realized yesterday that surveillance is bad and many are suggesting well-intentioned but misguided strategies for fighting it
talk to us
Just to be blunt, there are a lot of folks who realized yesterday that surveillance is bad and many are suggesting well-intentioned but misguided strategies for fighting it
talk to us
BREAKING: S.T.O.P. Condemns $4.5M ICE Iris Scanner Contract
"Before killing Renee Good, Jonathan Ross recorded her on his cellphone." - STOP Communications Director Will Owen #ICE #IrisScanning #Surveillance #BiometricSurveillance
www.stopspying.org/latest-news/...
"Before killing Renee Good, Jonathan Ross recorded her on his cellphone." - STOP Communications Director Will Owen #ICE #IrisScanning #Surveillance #BiometricSurveillance
www.stopspying.org/latest-news/...
S.T.O.P. Condemns $4.5M ICE Iris Scanner Contract — S.T.O.P. - The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project
www.stopspying.org
January 29, 2026 at 4:49 PM
BREAKING: S.T.O.P. Condemns $4.5M ICE Iris Scanner Contract
"Before killing Renee Good, Jonathan Ross recorded her on his cellphone." - STOP Communications Director Will Owen #ICE #IrisScanning #Surveillance #BiometricSurveillance
www.stopspying.org/latest-news/...
"Before killing Renee Good, Jonathan Ross recorded her on his cellphone." - STOP Communications Director Will Owen #ICE #IrisScanning #Surveillance #BiometricSurveillance
www.stopspying.org/latest-news/...
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We’ve updated our call tool too: www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/no-f...
No Funding for ICE Surveillance Tech!
www.fightforthefuture.org
January 26, 2026 at 10:06 PM
We’ve updated our call tool too: www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/no-f...
“In a Saturday thread on Slack discussing [Alex] Pretti’s killing, Palantir workers questioned both the ethics and the business logic of continuing the company’s work with ICE,” while Palantir’s internal wiki states their commitment to providing “the best software for the job.”
Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one worker wrote on Slack.
www.wired.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:32 PM
“In a Saturday thread on Slack discussing [Alex] Pretti’s killing, Palantir workers questioned both the ethics and the business logic of continuing the company’s work with ICE,” while Palantir’s internal wiki states their commitment to providing “the best software for the job.”
“We have a nice little database, and now you’re considered domestic terrorists,” said an ICE officer.
More at Futurism.
More at Futurism.
ICE Is Scanning Civilians' Faces, Telling Them They're Being Entered Into a Terrorism Database
There's compelling evidence immigration officers are scanning civilians' faces to add to a dystopian government database.
futurism.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:23 PM
“We have a nice little database, and now you’re considered domestic terrorists,” said an ICE officer.
More at Futurism.
More at Futurism.
#NY4All would protect due process and keep communities safe. But this week, Gov. Hochul claimed the system is “working.”
It’s not.
S.T.O.P. joined @thenyic.bsky.social in Albany pushing for action. Now it’s your turn.
nyic.quorum.us/campaign/NY4...
It’s not.
S.T.O.P. joined @thenyic.bsky.social in Albany pushing for action. Now it’s your turn.
nyic.quorum.us/campaign/NY4...
January 23, 2026 at 8:24 PM
#NY4All would protect due process and keep communities safe. But this week, Gov. Hochul claimed the system is “working.”
It’s not.
S.T.O.P. joined @thenyic.bsky.social in Albany pushing for action. Now it’s your turn.
nyic.quorum.us/campaign/NY4...
It’s not.
S.T.O.P. joined @thenyic.bsky.social in Albany pushing for action. Now it’s your turn.
nyic.quorum.us/campaign/NY4...
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How can you trust a word this agency says?
We need to use our local and state resources for good, not to help tear families apart.
We need to uphold due process for everyone.
We need the New York for All Act.
Pass #NY4All now.
We need to use our local and state resources for good, not to help tear families apart.
We need to uphold due process for everyone.
We need the New York for All Act.
Pass #NY4All now.
The Time is Now to Pass NY4All
Take Action! Protect New York!
nyic.quorum.us
January 22, 2026 at 7:54 PM
How can you trust a word this agency says?
We need to use our local and state resources for good, not to help tear families apart.
We need to uphold due process for everyone.
We need the New York for All Act.
Pass #NY4All now.
We need to use our local and state resources for good, not to help tear families apart.
We need to uphold due process for everyone.
We need the New York for All Act.
Pass #NY4All now.
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This is how ICE "works":
➡️A secret ICE memo lets agents break into homes without a judicial warrant: apnews.com/article/ice-...
➡️ICE agents used a 5-year-old child as "bait," and now both he and his father's whereabouts are unknown: mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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➡️A secret ICE memo lets agents break into homes without a judicial warrant: apnews.com/article/ice-...
➡️ICE agents used a 5-year-old child as "bait," and now both he and his father's whereabouts are unknown: mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.
apnews.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:54 PM
This is how ICE "works":
➡️A secret ICE memo lets agents break into homes without a judicial warrant: apnews.com/article/ice-...
➡️ICE agents used a 5-year-old child as "bait," and now both he and his father's whereabouts are unknown: mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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➡️A secret ICE memo lets agents break into homes without a judicial warrant: apnews.com/article/ice-...
➡️ICE agents used a 5-year-old child as "bait," and now both he and his father's whereabouts are unknown: mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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In Nassau Co + others ICE has officially “deputized” local officers to act as deportation agents, seizing neighbors on the streets.
Nassau alone has turned 3,000 people over to ICE. 1 person- Santos Banegas, DIED as a direct result: longislandadvocate.com/death-in-ice...
What about this works? 2/
Nassau alone has turned 3,000 people over to ICE. 1 person- Santos Banegas, DIED as a direct result: longislandadvocate.com/death-in-ice...
What about this works? 2/
Death in ICE custody sparks protest in Nassau County - The Long Island Advocate
By Alexa D’AmatoShortly after the death of Hempstead resident Santos Edilberto Banegas Reyes at the Nassau County Correctional Center in East Meadow, protesters gathered in front of the County Executi...
longislandadvocate.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:54 PM
In Nassau Co + others ICE has officially “deputized” local officers to act as deportation agents, seizing neighbors on the streets.
Nassau alone has turned 3,000 people over to ICE. 1 person- Santos Banegas, DIED as a direct result: longislandadvocate.com/death-in-ice...
What about this works? 2/
Nassau alone has turned 3,000 people over to ICE. 1 person- Santos Banegas, DIED as a direct result: longislandadvocate.com/death-in-ice...
What about this works? 2/
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@governor.ny.gov - "it's working?" 🤨
Please be serious and honest. NY is facing a crisis: over a million New Yorkers live in counties that have signed 287g mass deportation agreements with ICE. Others are colluding in secret.
You could end this with the stroke of a pen #NY4All 1/
Please be serious and honest. NY is facing a crisis: over a million New Yorkers live in counties that have signed 287g mass deportation agreements with ICE. Others are colluding in secret.
You could end this with the stroke of a pen #NY4All 1/
Hochul discusses Medicaid, immigration, child care and climate
The governor does not appear willing to support the “New York for All” Act.
spectrumlocalnews.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:54 PM
@governor.ny.gov - "it's working?" 🤨
Please be serious and honest. NY is facing a crisis: over a million New Yorkers live in counties that have signed 287g mass deportation agreements with ICE. Others are colluding in secret.
You could end this with the stroke of a pen #NY4All 1/
Please be serious and honest. NY is facing a crisis: over a million New Yorkers live in counties that have signed 287g mass deportation agreements with ICE. Others are colluding in secret.
You could end this with the stroke of a pen #NY4All 1/
“Trafficking in individuals’ personal information has become a booming industry in the absence of a federal data privacy law,” writes the Electronic Privacy Information Center (@epic.org) in a new report.
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Surveillance and ICE Are Driving Patients Away From Medical Care, Report Warns
A new EPIC report says data brokers, ad-tech surveillance, and ICE enforcement are among the factors leading to a “health privacy crisis” that is eroding trust and deterring people from seeking care.
www.wired.com
January 22, 2026 at 9:49 PM
“Trafficking in individuals’ personal information has become a booming industry in the absence of a federal data privacy law,” writes the Electronic Privacy Information Center (@epic.org) in a new report.
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The ICE agent who killed Renee Good had his cell phone camera pointed at her. Officers are using facial recognition tools to target immigrant communities and undermine the right to privacy, enabling federal overreach with no accountability and threatening immigrants’ civil liberties.
More at CNN.
More at CNN.
How ICE agents are using cellphone cameras in the field | CNN Politics
A CNN investigation found immigration officers are using cellphone cameras in unconventional ways in the heat of tense encounters – namely, for facial recognition and to document their actions, often ...
www.cnn.com
January 22, 2026 at 9:39 PM
The ICE agent who killed Renee Good had his cell phone camera pointed at her. Officers are using facial recognition tools to target immigrant communities and undermine the right to privacy, enabling federal overreach with no accountability and threatening immigrants’ civil liberties.
More at CNN.
More at CNN.
SCOTUS will review geofence warrants — a tool that gives police mass location data on everyone in an area. S.T.O.P. has been fighting for NYS to ban these invasive warrants for years. More: www.stopspying.org/location-tra... 📱🔒
Location Tracking Ban — S.T.O.P. - The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project
S.T.O.P. is a lead advocate for the enactment of a geolocation surveillance ban, which would prevent large-scale location tracking, with or without a warrant
stopspying.org
January 21, 2026 at 5:09 PM
SCOTUS will review geofence warrants — a tool that gives police mass location data on everyone in an area. S.T.O.P. has been fighting for NYS to ban these invasive warrants for years. More: www.stopspying.org/location-tra... 📱🔒
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📣Applications are still open for our Legal Director position!
We’re looking for a seasoned litigator to lead S.T.O.P.’s legal work challenging surveillance, defending civil rights, and standing with impacted communities. Remote, with preference for NYC-based applicants.
We’re looking for a seasoned litigator to lead S.T.O.P.’s legal work challenging surveillance, defending civil rights, and standing with impacted communities. Remote, with preference for NYC-based applicants.
January 12, 2026 at 10:00 PM
📣Applications are still open for our Legal Director position!
We’re looking for a seasoned litigator to lead S.T.O.P.’s legal work challenging surveillance, defending civil rights, and standing with impacted communities. Remote, with preference for NYC-based applicants.
We’re looking for a seasoned litigator to lead S.T.O.P.’s legal work challenging surveillance, defending civil rights, and standing with impacted communities. Remote, with preference for NYC-based applicants.
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40+ tech and justice orgs including @18millionrising.bsky.social @accessnow.org @stopspyingny.bsky.social and @ultraviolet.bsky.social demand lawmakers take swift action to stem the tide on ICE violence and the tech and data spending that help it spread!
www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-01...
www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-01...
40+ tech & justice organizations call on Congress to vote NO on funding for ICE’s multi-billion dollar panopticon and to abolish the agency
Citing extraordinary abuse of power and of surveillance technologies, a coalition of over 40 tech and justice organizations has issued an urgent letter calling on Congress to vote NO on all funding fo...
www.fightforthefuture.org
January 20, 2026 at 10:08 PM
40+ tech and justice orgs including @18millionrising.bsky.social @accessnow.org @stopspyingny.bsky.social and @ultraviolet.bsky.social demand lawmakers take swift action to stem the tide on ICE violence and the tech and data spending that help it spread!
www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-01...
www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-01...
Watch Al Jazeera’s report on the NYPD’s Domain Awareness System and how S.T.O.P. is challenging it in court.
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6Ox...
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6Ox...
January 20, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Watch Al Jazeera’s report on the NYPD’s Domain Awareness System and how S.T.O.P. is challenging it in court.
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6Ox...
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6Ox...
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In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an ICE raid. Both were wrong. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/ices-facial-...
Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/ices-facial-...
January 20, 2026 at 4:52 PM
In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an ICE raid. Both were wrong. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/ices-facial-...
Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/ices-facial-...