ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
“The court also referred the case back to prosecutors for further investigation of other crimes and more serious offences potentially committed, including #espionage.”
www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Our latest submission to the Committee on Enforced Disappearance and the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances is out now.
We highlight the role of digital technologies; spyware & location-tracking technologies in facilitating enforced disappearances of exiled dissidents
Sarah McKune, @nateschenkkan.bsky.social, an anonymous @citizenlab.ca researcher, @yaqiu.bsky.social & I have co-authored a UN submission on the enforced disappearance of migrants in the context of transnational repression:
citizenlab.ca/submissions-...
New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF
Even giant tech companies are made up of individual employees who mostly want to do the right thing. Resisting lawless ICE subpoenas is an easy place to start. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Egypt: Refugees in hiding amid crackdown involving arbitrary arrests and unlawful deportations
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
"Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts. The dept. has sent Google, Meta & other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials and tech workers said." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
“In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature’s release.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Epic OPSEC fail by Paragon exposing Graphite spyware capabilities.
Annotated pic from what we know.
Please help me figure out the other apps in in this pic that the spyware can access:
#WhatsApp
#Telegram
#Signal
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#Line?
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#Snapchat?
#TikTok?
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ZeroDayRAT is a new commercial mobile #spyware toolkit – first observed on 2 February – that enables full remote access to Android and iOS devices, with features including live camera feeds, key logging, bank and crypto theft and more.
www.securityweek.com/new-zerodayr...
GOOGLE HANDED STUDENT JOURNALIST’S BANK AND CREDIT CARD NUMBERS TO ICE
theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...
She thought ICE agents were taking her to school. The 10-year-old ended up 1,200 miles away at a detention facility
www.cnn.com/2026/02/06/u...
“This sure looks like a violation of the foreign emoluments clause, and more to the point, it looks like a bribe.”
"A five-alarm fire about the federal government being for sale.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
UK-based pair behind messaging app accused of giving data to Iranian regime
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
“I think there are very few people in this country that are safe,” said CVT's Scott Roehm on @skynewsrss.bsky.social about the militarized immigration enforcement in Minnesota & across the United States. He notes the need to completely dismantle ICE in its form.
news.sky.com/story/minnea...
“Our clients are telling us this is the very thing that they fled in their home countries & they’re starting to see it play out in front of them,” Alison Beckman, Lab & @cvt.org, tells @kare11.bsky.social.
See the impacts clients & Minnesotans are facing.
www.kare11.com/article/news...
EXCLUSION BY DESIGN
The report explores how errors in the Home Office evisa system are leading to significant stress, anxiety, and fatigue among migrants in the UK. It also highlights the impact and lack of support for effected people.
www.openrightsgroup.org/publications...
People are already in the streets after an ICE agent shot a woman in her vehicle in Minneapolis today. Here are some @wired.com tips for protecting yourself from your government. www.wired.com/story/how-to...
“Boys at her school shared AI-generated, nude images of her. After a fight, she was the one expelled.”
Despite seeking help, the whole educational system has failed her. And eventually, when she reacted, her pain became visible, yet she was the one to be punished.
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge.
The rise of the Emirati dis-influencers and why we all should be worried
@marcowenjones.bsky.social
www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/rise...
“China promotes Xinjiang as a tourist paradise–and a safe place to which Uyghurs should return. Its authorities deny that any human-rights abuses have ever occurred in the province.”
“Now Uyghurs who fled are losing protections as China pressures other countries to hand them over, and as America and Europe have grown more hostile towards refugees.”
For years, TNR experts like @nateschenkkan.bsky.social have long warned that immigration policy is key to confronting transnational repression. This piece shows how host states are now contributing to the repression of Uyghur exiles and diaspora communities. #TNR
www.economist.com/china/2025/1...
"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://bit.ly/3MMdJvz
Who will own TikTok in the US and Why it Matters for Democracy
www.techpolicy.press/who-will-own...
@hrw.org published in November a very important report on the torture of Venezuelan deportees.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
Omg this is very inspiring! Congratulations! I can’t wait to read it.
