Coverage of immigration policy enforcement, deportation operations, ICE activities, and their intersection with technology and civil rights.
ICE is withholding legally mandated deportation and detention data, sparking bipartisan lawsuits and concerns over a lack of transparency in the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.
ICE is paying $125 million for access to Thomson Reuters' personal databases to investigate 'voter fraud' and monitor millions of people.
Palantir faces a growing internal rebellion as employees question whether their data tools are being used to facilitate government fascism and human rights abuses.
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.
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.
Rising anti-surveillance sentiment is driving a nationwide wave of physical sabotage against Flock license plate readers used for immigration tracking.
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 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 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.
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 new Webloc tool enables warrantless, neighborhood-scale phone tracking using commercial data, prompting major civil liberties concerns.
ICE’s Mobile Fortify forces facial scans and keeps the photos for 15 years, even for U.S. citizens, according to a DHS document.
U.S. and global surveillance capabilities are expanding—often controversially and with mixed effectiveness—while privacy tools race to keep up.
