"The US Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious, AP has found. The predictive intelligence program has resulted in people being stopped, searched and in some cases arrested."

“If this program is implemented in its current form, it’s extremely likely that incorrect addresses will be given to DHS and individuals will be wrongly targeted,” said an IRS engineer who reviewed the blueprints.

By @williamturton.bsky.social, @chrisbing.bsky.social, and Avi Asher-Schapiro

NEW: Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowding.

Unpaywalled from @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social:

New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...

“When we think about ICE, we have to recognize it’s not just sworn officers anymore, but a network of private intelligence contractors who get paid to probe a vast array of data,” EFF’s @maassive.bsky.social told @fedscoop.bsky.social - possibly with political motivations.

Emails Reveal the Casual Surveillance Alliance Between ICE and Local Police

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The report found that while the NYPD’s Community Response Team was initially created to focus on so-called quality-of-life issues such as illegal motorbikes, its officers have more recently been “stopping, frisking, and searching unconstitutionally.”

By @ericumansky.bsky.social

LA protests are being surveilled by helicopters, Ring cameras, bodycams, and more. Federal agents can also use facial recognition across all social media. Learn more here: www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

EFF's @maassive.bsky.social told @wired.com in 2022 that ALPR data regs should be reviewed to protect abortion rights.

Now EFF's @evacide.bsky.social tells @404media.co that police using ALPRs to track women who have abortions "does not make me feel any better about this kind of surveillance.”

New from 404 Media: a cop in Texas performed a nationwide search of license plate reading cameras for a woman who got an abortion, according to multiple sets of data we've reviewed. Included cameras where abortion is legal, like Washington and Illinois www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

Notable 4th Amendment rulings in this 5th Circuit opinion today. Most importantly: People have a reasonable expectation of privacy in stored online contents—here, the contents of a Dropbox account. (Per Oldham, J., w/Richman & Ramirez)

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SCOOP: ICE, HSI, and DHS are getting side-door access to the nationwide system of Flock license plate cameras by asking local police to perform lookups for them, new public records show.

ICE does *not* have a contract to use this surveillance tool itself.

www.404media.co/ice-taps-int...

The Trump administration is building a central online marketplace for the Intelligence Community to buy private information about individuals from unregulated data brokers — coming soon to www.icdata.gov

theintercept.com/2025/05/22/i...

The DOGE takeover deepens the view of government data as a resource exploited by a few elite (and private) actors, write Eric Gordon and Neil Kleiman. But especially at state and local levels, we can still reclaim civic tech from power brokers and give it back to the people, they write.

#ICE is pouring $30M into surveillance company #Palantir to supercharge immigrant surveillance — tracking visa overstays, self-deportations, and funneling data to border patrol.
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​A dystopian deal with a dystopian company.
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TODAY @eff.org is hosting a live, virtual panel with our Advisory Board member @petramolnar.com discussing the massive increase in surveillance infrastructure throughout the U.S.-Mexico border region and civil liberties at the border. Happening at 4–5 PM ET. Details: www.eff.org/event/life-a...

Police phone hacking company Cellebrite is using AI to summarize chat logs and audio from seized mobile phones.

🔗 www.404media.co/cellebrite-i...

Magistrate judge in the 5th Circuit, asked to sign off on warrants for routine "tower dumps," declines to do, writing an opinion concluding that all tower dumps are likewise unconstitutional in light of the 5th Circuit's recent geofencing opinion. (Thread)
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