Palantir's Internal Crisis: The Battle Between Tech Ethics and State Power
Palantir faces a growing internal rebellion as employees question whether their data tools are being used to facilitate government fascism and human rights abuses.
Immigration Enforcement
Coverage of immigration policy enforcement, deportation operations, ICE activities, and their intersection with technology and civil rights.
Reading List
Google’s Broken Privacy Promise: A Case Study in Corporate-State Surveillance
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Google bypassed its own notification policy to hand over a student's data to ICE, prompting legal action over broken privacy promises and state surveillance.
The Data Broker Loophole: Closing the Government's Backdoor to Warrantless Surveillance
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Lawmakers and privacy advocates are racing to close a loophole that allows government agencies to buy their way around the Fourth Amendment by purchasing private citizen data from commercial brokers.
Surveillance Sabotage: Americans Target Flock Cameras Over ICE Concerns
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Rising anti-surveillance sentiment is driving a nationwide wave of physical sabotage against Flock license plate readers used for immigration tracking.
Irish Man With Valid Work Permit Detained by ICE for Five Months, Facing Deportation
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An Irish man with a valid US work permit is detained for months and faces deportation amid disputed paperwork and a broader ICE crackdown.
ICE Using Palantir’s ELITE With Medicaid Data, EFF Urges Congressional Action
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ICE is reportedly using a Palantir tool fed by Medicaid and other government data to target deportations, prompting EFF to demand urgent Congressional limits on data consolidation and misuse.
Texas Cops’ Secretive Phone-Tracking Tool Raises Big Costs, Bigger Civil Liberties Fears
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Texas is pouring money into a secretive phone-tracking tool that may bypass warrant requirements, with scant evidence it solves crimes and mounting concerns it erodes constitutional privacy.
Life Under ICE Occupation in Minneapolis
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A Minneapolis resident depicts a city under aggressive ICE raids that disrupt schools and daily life, urging national pressure and support to protect residents and prevent further escalation.
ICE’s Webloc Enables Warrantless Neighborhood Phone Tracking
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ICE’s new Webloc tool enables warrantless, neighborhood-scale phone tracking using commercial data, prompting major civil liberties concerns.
ICE Facial Recognition App Mandates Scans, Keeps Photos 15 Years
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ICE’s Mobile Fortify forces facial scans and keeps the photos for 15 years, even for U.S. citizens, according to a DHS document.
ICE Expands Stingray Use As AI Policing Stumbles And Global Surveillance Grows
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U.S. and global surveillance capabilities are expanding—often controversially and with mixed effectiveness—while privacy tools race to keep up.