by Mike Ludwig | May 22, 2026 | AI, AI surveillance, News, Policing, Surveillance
In communities large and small, red and blue, all across the United States, residents are filling local council meetings in opposition to the explosive growth of high-tech police surveillance systems. Local movements to rid city streets of AI-powered surveillance cameras and Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) networks used by law enforcement are growing rapidly amid scandals…
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by Shireen Akram-Boshar | May 22, 2026 | Facial Recognition Technology, ICE, immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, News, Surveillance, Trump Administration
The Guardian has published newly-released body camera footage showing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents using facial recognition technology to identify farm workers in Oregon after violently arresting them. The videos were initially released in court in an ongoing class action lawsuit against ICE’s arrest practices – which include arresting people without a warrant…
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by Mike Ludwig | Apr 30, 2026 | Activism, big tech, Civil Rights, Delia Ramirez, Democrats, Department of Homeland Security, DHS, doxxing, EFF, Facebook, Fascism, First Amendment, free speech, Google, ICE, Israel, Meta, News, Privacy, Reddit, Social Media, spying, Spyware, Summer Lee, Surveillance, Technology, Trump Administration
Lawmakers and privacy advocates are demanding answers from the Trump administration about its weaponization of digital tools and popular web platforms to spy on critics and activists. Targets have included a student who attended a pro-Palestine protest and anonymous web users posting about President Donald Trump’s violent immigration crackdown, but the administration’s secret systems of…
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by Lydia Pelot-Hobbs | Apr 25, 2026 | Activism, Department of Homeland Security, DHS, ICE, Immigrants, immigration, immigration jails, Interview, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Organizing, Policing, Resistance, Surveillance
The recent move from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to convert empty or surplus warehouses into large-scale ICE detention centers has produced a new terrain of struggle in the fight against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). A notable departure from ICE’s existing detention system, which largely relies on contracts with county sheriff’s departments and privately run prison…
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by Sharon Zhang | Apr 20, 2026 | Alex Karp, big tech, Fascism, military contractors, News, Palantir, Pentagon, Surveillance, White Supremacy
Major military contractor and surveillance giant Palantir has posted a chilling manifesto on social media that calls for tech companies like itself to play a larger role in a dystopian future where imperialist and white supremacist powers are unleashed and Americans are increasingly subject to the whims of the surveillance state. The post contains 22 points it says were summarized from a 2025…
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by Omar Zahzah | Apr 19, 2026 | big tech, Book Excerpt, censorship, Excerpt, Internet, Israel, Media, Palestine, Social Media, Surveillance
An outgrowth of the counter-revolutionary Oslo Accords, the Palestinian internet digitally encapsulates the contradictions of anti-colonial resistance in the neoliberal era. As such, the internet today is both an instrument for collective interconnection to Palestinian revolutionary history and struggle as well as a site of suppression and surveillance. As Miriyam Aouragh writes in Palestine…
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