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2026
DHS AI Surveillance Arsenal Grows as Agency Defies Courts• Tech Policy Press
2 days ago•DHSICEimmigrationlicense plate readerslocation trackingphonesstate repressionwarrantless surveillance
StopICE Hacked: Names And Locations of Over 100k Users Were Sent to the FBI, ICE and HSI
3 days ago•DHSdoxxingFBIhackingICEimmigration
The Stop Cop City RICO Collapse and the Trap of Conspiracy Prosecutions• In Defense Of Movements
4 days ago•courtslegalstate repressionwins
How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are• New York Times
4 days ago•facial recognitionICElocation trackingstate repressionwarrantless surveillance
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Washington Post Raid Is a Frightening Reminder: Turn Off Your Phone’s Biometrics Now
4 days ago•biometricscourtsFBIlegalphonesstate repression
Numerous journalists targeted in attack via Signal Messenger• Netzpolitik.org
6 days ago•hackingphishingSignal
Criminalizing Dissent in the Wake of Renee Nicole Good’s Death• In Defense Of Movements
6 days ago•civil libertiesDHSFBIICElegalprivacysocial mediastate repressionTrumpwarrantless surveillance
DHS Is Expanding Domestic Surveillance While Targeting Efforts to Document and Dissent• Free Press
Jan 26•civil libertiescop watchDHSstate repression
The Government Unconstitutionally Labels ICE Observers as Domestic Terrorists• The Cato Institute
Jan 26•civil libertiesDHSfederal governmentlegalstate repressionTrump
Here’s the tech powering ICE’s deportation crackdown• TechCrunch
Jan 26•FlockICElocation trackingsocial mediaspywarestingrayssurveillancewarrantless surveillance
The FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE, Patel says• NBC News
Jan 26•FBIfederal governmentinfiltrationSignalstate repression
The Trump Administration wants your DNA and social media• Privacy International
Jan 26•borderflightimmigrationprivacysurveillancetravel
ICE Making List of Anyone Who Films Them• Ken Klippenstein
Jan 23•facial recognitionfederal governmentICEstate repressionwarrantless surveillance
ICE Said Agents Can Enter Homes Without Judicial Warrant, Group Claims• New York Times
Jan 21•civil libertiescourtsICEimmigrationlegal
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FBI’s Washington Post Investigation Shows How Your Printer Can Snitch on You• The Intercept
Jan 21•corporate surveillance/hackingFBIsurveillancewhistleblowers
Leaked Doc: Homeland Security's Domestic Terror Obsession• Ken Klippenstein
Jan 21•civil libertiesDHSfederal governmentICEstate repression
She Criticized the Mayor’s Support for Israel on Facebook. Then the Cops Showed Up at Her Door.• The Intercept
Jan 20•civil libertiespolicesocial mediastate repression
Feds Create Drone No Fly Zone That Would Stop People Filming ICE• 404 Media
Jan 20•counter-surveillance ICEstate repression
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Trump Threatens to Use Insurrection Act Against Demonstrators in Minnesota• Truthout
Jan 15•federal governmentmilitarystate repression
‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid• 404 Media
Jan 15•ICEPalantirsurveillancewarrantless surveillance
Federal Agents Keep Invoking Killing of Renee Good to Threaten Protesters in Minnesota• The Intercept
Jan 14•ICEstate repression
Personal information of 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol agents leaked online• The Independent
Jan 14•ICEimmigration
Minneapolis duo details their ICE detention, including pressure to rat on protest organizers• Associated press
Jan 13•ICEstate repression
Police Unmask Millions of Surveillance Targets Because of Flock Redaction Error• 404 Media
Jan 13•Flocklicense plate readerspoliceprivacysurveillancewarrantless surveillance
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Privacy advocates: ICE using private data to intimidate observers and activists• Minnesota Public Radio
Jan 13•ICElicense plate readersprivacyproteststate repressionsurveillancewarrantless surveillance
How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Jan 8•FlockhackingICEimmigrationprivacysurveillancewarrantless surveillance
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods• 404 Media
Jan 8•ICEphonessurveillancewarrantless surveillance
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ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Jan 7•AIfacial recognitionhackingICEimmigrationlicense plate readerslocation trackingPalantirsocial mediaspywarestingrayssurveillancewarrantless surveillance
BlackNest: Inside Canary Mission’s Secret Web of Unlisted Sites• Drop Site News
Jan 6•doxxingPalestine solidarityright-wing
2025
Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves• 404 Media
Dec 22•Flockhackinglicense plate readerswarrantless surveillance
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Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It• 404 Media
Dec 9•legalphones
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Signal Contingency Plan (Delta Chat with Fanny and Mary)• The Final Straw Radio
Dec 7•defenseencryptionSignal
The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist Zine• The Intercept
Nov 23•ICElegalstate repression
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal• The Guardian
Nov 21•FBIICEimmigrationinfiltrationsurveillance
The FBI Wants AI Surveillance Drones With Facial Recognition• The Intercept
Nov 21•dronesfacial recognitionFBIfederal governmentsurveillance
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
Good summary of many of the recent surveillance advances and attack escalations against activists
Nov 21•FBIICEstate repressionsurveillance
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with ‘suspicious’ travel patterns
Nov 20•DHSICElicense plate readerssurveillancewarrantless surveillance
How Cops Are Using Flock Safety's ALPR Network to Surveil Protesters and Activists• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Nov 20•Flocklicense plate readerspolice
Judge Rules Flock Surveillance Images Are Public Records That Can Be Requested By Anyone• 404 Media
Nov 12•courtsFlocklegallicense plate readerspoliceprivacy
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DHS Gives Local Cops a Facial Recognition App To Find Immigrants• 404 Media
Nov 4•DHSfacial recognitionICEsurveillance
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You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says• 404 Media
Oct 31•DHSfacial recognitionICEwarrantless surveillance
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Someone Snuck Into a Cellebrite Microsoft Teams Call and Leaked Phone Unlocking Details• 404 Media
Oct 30•phone hackingphonessurveillance
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ICE Just Bought A Social Media Surveillance Bot
Oct 23•policesocial mediasurveillancewarrantless surveillance
FBI Agents Visit Anti-ICE Protester• Ken Klippenstein
Shows us how the witch hunt for "antifa" is beginning to look. Particularly interesting that this person knew no one at the protest, but the agents claimed that "your name came up." Which means he was surveilled in some other way.
Oct 23•FBIproteststate repressionsurveillance
“Antifa” Protesters Charged With Terrorism for Constitutionally Protected Activity• The Intercept
Oct 17•FBIICElegalstate repression
Amazon’s Ring now works with video surveillance company Flock• The Verge
Oct 17•big techFlockwarrantless surveillance
ICE amps up its surveillance powers, targeting immigrants and antifa• The Washington Post
Oct 17•ICElocation trackingphone hackingsurveillance
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ICE, Secret Service, Navy All Had Access to Flock's Nationwide Network of Cameras• 404 Media
Oct 16•Flocklicense plate readerssurveillancewarrantless surveillance
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Inside the War on Antifa• Ken Klippenstein
Feds target "affinity" groups, informant networks, the Tides Foundation, and more.
Oct 15•FBIstate repressionsurveillanceTrump
The Surveillance Empire That Tracked World Leaders, a Vatican Enemy, and Maybe You
See all publications related to this multi-newsroom reporting effort and the technical explanation of how this occurs.
Oct 14•location trackingphonessurveillancewarrantless surveillance
Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Oct 7•abortion accessFlocklicense plate readerspolicesurveillance
ICE purchased vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones• TechCrunch
Oct 7•ICEphonesstingrayssurveillance
ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day• 404 Media
Sep 30•ICElocation trackingphonessurveillance
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ICE Doesn't Want You To Know Why They Bought a Phone Cracking System• Reason
Sep 29•ICEphone hackingphonessurveillance
Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”• Ken Klippenstein
Sep 27•organizationsstate repressionTrump
Google Secretly Handed ICE Data About Pro-Palestine Student Activist• The Intercept
Sep 16•big techlegalPalestine solidaritysurveillance
Rayhunter: What We Have Found So Far• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Sep 10•counter-surveillance defensephonesstingrays
ICE To Pay Up To $10 Million For Clearview Facial Recognition To Investigate Agent Assaults• Forbes
Sep 8•facial recognitionICE
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EFF Statement on ICE Use of Paragon Solutions Malware• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Sep 5•ICEphonesspywaresurveillance
Newly Revealed FBI Document Confirms Collaboration Between DC Police and Discredited Far-Right Group Project Veritas
Aug 26•FBIinfiltrationstate repression
LAPD Eyes ‘GeoSpy’, an AI Tool That Can Geolocate Photos in Seconds• 404 Media
Aug 13•location trackingpolicesurveillance
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Feds Used Local Cop's Password to Do Immigration Surveillance With Flock Cameras• 404 Media
Aug 12•FlockICElicense plate readerslocation trackingsurveillance
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Canary Mission: How US uses a ‘hate group’ to target Palestine advocates• Al Jazeera
Jul 15•doxxingPalestine solidarityright-wing
DHS investigated over 5,000 student protesters listed on doxxing website: Official• ABC News
Jul 9•DHSdoxxingPalestine solidarityright-wing
Columbia University admissions applications stolen by right-wing hacker• The Verge
Jul 9•hackingright-wing
Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications• 404 Media
Jun 4•big techiPhonephonessurveillance
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Activists say southeast Michigan police raids are targeting pro-Palestinian protesters
Apr 23•FBIPalestine solidaritystate repression
Car Subscription Features Raise Your Risk of Government Surveillance, Police Records Show• Wired
Apr 20•surveillance
Judge Rules Blanket Search of Cell Tower Data Unconstitutional• 404 Media
Apr 18•courtsphones
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Inside a Powerful Database ICE Uses to Identify and Deport People• 404 Media
Apr 9•ICEPalantirsurveillance
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Canada using Israeli spyware (Paragon's Graphite)• The Guardian
Mar 19•outside the USpolicespywaresurveillance
LAPD Surveilled Gaza Protests Using This Social Media Tool• The Intercept
Mar 17•Palestine solidaritypolicesocial mediasurveillance
The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring• 404 Media
Here is a direct link to the spreadsheet with all 200+ sites listed.
Mar 12•ICEsocial mediasurveillance
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US to revoke student visas over ‘pro-Hamas’ social media posts flagged by AI – report• The Guardian
Mar 6•AIPalestine solidaritysocial mediasurveillance
Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Mar 4•counter-surveillance defensephonesstingrays
Authorities worldwide can see more than ever, with Big Tech as their eyes
Feb 27•big techgovernment data requests
Cameras have appeared outside homes of Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ activists. Why are they there?• The Guardian
Feb 14•policestate repressionsurveillance
ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online• The Intercept
Feb 11•ICEsocial mediasurveillance
FBI’s Warrantless Search Ruled Unconstitutional in a Blow to Government Spying• The Intercept
Highlights the fact that the NSA does in fact participate in surveillance of US citizens even though they are supposted to be focused on ferign threats.
Jan 27, 2025•FBIgovernment data requestsNSA
2024
Location Data Firm Offers to Help Cops Track Targets via Doctor Visits• 404 Media
Dec 10, 2024•abortion accessFog Data Sciencelocation trackingphonessurveillance
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Exxon lobbyist investigated over hack-and-leak of environmentalist emails, sources say
Nov 27, 2024•climatecorporate surveillance/hacking
Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults and Brothels in Germany• Wired
Nov 19, 2024•data brokerslocation trackingwarrantless surveillance
Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics• 404 Media
Oct 23, 2024•abortion accesslocation trackingphonessurveillancewarrantless surveillance
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Suppression by Surveillance: Protest Movements and the Corporate Surveillers Profiting Off Fear
Aug 28, 2024•social mediawarrantless surveillance
Federal Appeals Court Finds Geofence Warrants Are “Categorically” Unconstitutional• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Aug 12, 2024•civil libertiescourtslocation trackingphones
Atlanta police surveil people opposing ‘Cop City’: ‘There’s this constant stalking feeling’• The Guardian
May 29, 2024•policestate repressionsurveillance
Top Republican donors fund group doxxing pro-Palestinian college students• CNBC
May 13, 2024•doxxingPalestine solidarityright-wing
Documents Reveal How DC Police Surveil Social Media Profiles and Protest Activity
Apr 30, 2024•data brokerspolicesocial mediastate repressionsurveillance
2023
Police seized 5 computers, 2 cell phones in raid on Kansas newspaper
Reminder about why it is important to enable encryption on your computer and phone.
Aug 14, 2023•encryptionpolice
The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens• Wired
Jun 12, 2023•federal governmentwarrantless surveillance
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COINTELPRO 2.0: How the FBI Infiltrated BLM Protests After Police Murder of George Floyd• Democracy Now
Feb 7, 2023•BLMFBIinfiltrationstate repression
2022
The secret police: After protests around George Floyd’s murder ended, a police system for watching protesters kept going• Technology Review
Mar 17, 2022•BLMFBIpolicesurveillancewarrantless surveillance
2021
Law enforcement agencies across the US ran thousands of Clearview AI facial recognition searches
Apr 6, 2021•AIfacial recognitionwarrantless surveillance