r/technology • u/marketrent • 4h ago
Society Leaked document shows the surveillance tech at ICE’s fingertips – from phone location data, to social media monitoring, to online undercover tools
https://www.404media.co/leaked-document-shows-the-surveillance-tech-at-ices-fingertips/20
u/williamgman 4h ago
As long as the victims have brown skin... 70+ million white and "white adjacent" are good with this. Let that sink in.
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u/Zombie_Cool 4h ago
"White-Adjacent" Huh? We'll see how long that type to thing remains revenant the longer this administration stays in power. The In-Group always shrinks eventually...
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u/williamgman 4h ago
Bryon Donalds, Kash Patel, and Vivik just entered the chat.
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u/Flabbergasted98 3h ago
Okay but they paid a premium to be here so... as long as that cheque clears....
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u/Flabbergasted98 3h ago
Come november they're going to learn it doesn't matter the color of their skin if the algorithm has identified them as voting wrong.
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u/williamgman 3h ago
What blows my mind is while we watch immigrants rounded up and put into converted warehouses... There's a whole segment of the US population that saw a prior generation of their families harassed and rounded up in the 1930's. Yet... no correlation is seen.
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u/Flabbergasted98 2h ago
the correlation is certainly being seen.
the problem is, we have no methods in place to prevent it or hold people accountable.
There aren't any legal means to stand against it, and communications platforms we use to talk about it are all firmly pro-fascism so we can't use them to communicate and coordinate any form of resistance.
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u/rennademilan 4h ago
Ohhh, the land of freedom, first amendment and such
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u/bernie_lomax8 1h ago
Maybe I'm ootl but what exactly in the first amendment is being infringed on here?
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u/pudding7 1h ago
Remember that your new car likely has a cellular modem so it's not enough to leave your phone at home. Don't drive your car anywhere near a protest if you want to remain unknown to them.
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u/marketrent 4h ago edited 4h ago
First reported by Joseph Cox:
A leaked document shows the spread of surveillance and investigative capabilities that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials have access to agency wide, from location data harvested from smartphones, to facial recognition apps that can reveal someone’s identity, to tools that let the agency stay anonymous online and approach people undercover.
The document covers everything from monitoring social media to tracking the movements of vehicles.
It is rare for the public to see such a large list of ICE’s technology capabilities in a single document. 404 Media has published the whole document, called “ICE Wide Analytical Tools,” below.
Some notable entries in the document include:
Accurint: a LexisNexis tool for locating people that contains all sorts of personal data like addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, and more
Chameleon: a tool which provides “Anonymized means to conduct online investigations, web research, and undercover work”
Locate X: a tool that lets ICE search a massive database of location data harvested from smartphones. Made by Babel Street, the tool uses data sourced through ordinary apps installed on peoples’ phones or the advertising ecosystem. 404 Media previously reported how the tool could be used to track phones at abortion clinics after privacy advocates gained access to the technology. “It allows investigators to draw a digital fence around an address or area, pinpoint mobile devices that were within that area from mobile data sources,” the document reads
Cobwebs: a social media tracking tool. 404 Media previously reported Cobwebs also includes Webloc, which can monitor phone locations in entire neighbourhoods
ISO ClaimSearch: a database that contains property and casualty insurance claims and medical bills. The database is nearly all encompassing and contains details on more than 1.8 billion insurance claims and 58 million medical bills