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This App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country
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This App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country

Material viewed by 404 Media shows data giant Thomson Reuters enriches license plate data with marriage, voter, and ownership records. The tool can predict where a car may be in the future.
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google

Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “It is time to choose sides; fascism or morality? Big tech has made their choice.”
ICE Plans to Spend $180 Million on Bounty Hunters to Stalk Immigrants
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ICE Plans to Spend $180 Million on Bounty Hunters to Stalk Immigrants

Newly released documents provide more details about ICE's plan to use bounty hunters and private investigators to find the location of undocumented immigrants.
The Latest Defense Against ICE: 3D-Printed Whistles
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The Latest Defense Against ICE: 3D-Printed Whistles

Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.”
DHS Gives Local Cops a Facial Recognition App To Find Immigrants
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DHS Gives Local Cops a Facial Recognition App To Find Immigrants

The app, called Mobile Identify and available on the Google Play Store, is specifically for local and regional law enforcement agencies working with ICE on immigration enforcement.
You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says
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You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says

Photos captured by Mobile Fortify will be stored for 15 years, regardless of immigration or citizenship status, the document says.
ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship
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ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship

Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”
ICE Is Using a University Building as a Deportation Office and the University Says It Can't Do Anything About It
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ICE Is Using a University Building as a Deportation Office and the University Says It Can't Do Anything About It

The Milwaukee School of Engineering is largely powerless to kick ICE out of a building it wanted to turn into a new academic center, according to audio of a meeting obtained by 404 Media.
Con Edison Refuses to Say How ICE Gets Its Customers’ Data
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Con Edison Refuses to Say How ICE Gets Its Customers’ Data

Court records show Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a part of ICE, and the FBI obtained Con Edison user data. The utility provider refuses to say whether law enforcement needs a warrant to access its data.
DHS Tries To Unmask Ice Spotting Instagram Account by Claiming It Imports Merchandise
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DHS Tries To Unmask Ice Spotting Instagram Account by Claiming It Imports Merchandise

There is no evidence the Instagram and Facebook account, called Montcowatch, sells anything. Lawyers from the ACLU say the move is "wildly outside the scope" of DHS' authority.
Hackers Say They Have Personal Data of Thousands of NSA and Other Government Officials
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Hackers Say They Have Personal Data of Thousands of NSA and Other Government Officials

The same hackers who doxed hundreds of DHS, ICE, and FBI officials now say they have the personal data of tens of thousands of officials from the NSA, Air Force, Defense Intelligence Agency, and many other agencies.
Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials
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Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials

Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters—one of the latest amalgamations of typically young, reckless, and English-speaking hackers—posted the apparent phone numbers and addresses of hundreds of government officials, including nearly 700 from DHS.