Anti-ICE 'digital Minutemen' use military-grade surveillance tactics against feds At least 200 groups train civilians in S.A.L.U.T.E. intelligence method to track federal agents in 13 databases, raising national security concerns.

Fox News reports federal narratives treating encrypted messaging by anti-ICE activists as evidence of criminal coordination, signaling expanded surveillance and digital repression of protest activity. #ICE #FBI #Encryption #CivilLiberties #DigitalRepression #FoxNews

The powerful tools in ICE’s arsenal to track suspects — and protesters Biometric trackers, cellphone location databases and drones are among the surveillance technologies agents are using in their immigration enforcement campaign.

ICE has institutionalized an integrated surveillance system that enables persistent tracking of immigrants, protesters, and civil society nationwide—extending surveillance beyond traditional immigration enforcement. #ICE #DHS #Surveillance #DigitalRepression #CivilLiberties #WashingtonPost

DHS keeps trying and failing to unmask anonymous ICE critics online Community watch groups have a playbook to keep ICE away from subscriber information.

DHS is using administrative summonses under repurposed customs authority to test de‑anonymization of ICE critics, signaling a broader effort to deter documentation and normalize speech suppression without successful enforcement. #Trump #DHS #ICE #DigitalRepression #ProtestSurveillance #ArsTechnica

Feds Create Drone No Fly Zone That Would Stop People Filming ICE The FAA has altered a no fly zone designation that was originally created for US military bases to apply to DHS units.

Federal agencies expand drone no-fly zones around ICE operations, using aviation regulations to block filming and suppress public documentation of immigration enforcement. #Trump #ICE #DHS #FAA #DigitalRepression #PressFreedom #DocumentationSuppression #PressSuppression #404Media

‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activit...

ICE is using Palantir’s “ELITE” to preselect neighborhoods for door-to-door immigration raids, shifting enforcement from individual targets to algorithmic area sweeps. #ICE #Palantir #DigitalRepression #ImmigrationEnforcement #California #Texas #Arizona #Minnesota #NewYork #404Media

Report: ICE Using Palantir Tool That Feeds On Medicaid Data ICE is using a Palantir tool that uses Medicaid and other government data to stalk people for arrest. This is exactly the kind of data privacy abuse that EFF has been warning about.

ICE is using a Palantir-built surveillance tool that ingests Medicaid data to automate deportation targeting, signaling a major expansion of data-driven immigration enforcement. #ICE #Surveillance #DigitalRepression #Palantir #Medicaid #CivilLiberties #EFF

Kevin Rennie: In CT, a fight against ‘surveillance creep’ that is spreading everywhere We need not be relegated to spectators or inadvertent snitches.

Pushback in Connecticut against expanding surveillance powers highlights how “surveillance creep” normalizes government monitoring through incremental decisions rather than public debate. #Trump #Connecticut #Surveillance #CivilLiberties #DigitalRepression #HartfordCourant

Far-right extremists have been organizing online since before the internet – and AI is their next frontier Neo-Nazis and other far-right extremists were early adopters of bulletin board systems, pioneering online recruiting and radicalization techniques long before the social media revolution.

Far-right extremists extend a decades-long pattern of exploiting new media by turning AI into their next propaganda frontier, scaling transnational recruitment and influence. #FarRightExtremism #DigitalRepression #AI #OnlineRadicalization #TheConversation

The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings

FBI designates nonviolent courtwatch volunteers as “anarchist violent extremists,” expanding political-surveillance frameworks to recast civic oversight as domestic terrorism. #Trump #FBI #DOJ #Courtwatch #DigitalRepression #CivilLiberties #TheGuardian

The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings

FBI and NYPD infiltrate a private Signal courtwatch group through a confidential source, turning encrypted immigrant‑rights organizing in New York City into nationwide intelligence. #Trump #FBI #NYPD #Courtwatch #DigitalRepression #ImmigrationJustice #TheGuardian

Records reviewed by AP detail online monitoring, arrests in New Orleans immigration crackdown State and federal authorities are monitoring online criticism and protests against the immigration crackdown in New Orleans.

Federal and state agencies monitored online speech, protest coordination, and community organizing during the “Catahoula Crunch” immigration crackdown in New Orleans. #CatahoulaCrunch #DigitalRepression #NewOrleans #Surveillance #ICE #DHS #APNews

Camouflaging cars and swapping license plates: How agents make immigration arrests Immigration enforcement officers are sometimes forgoing license plates or otherwise masking their cars while apprehending migrants across the U.S.

Mixed federal arrest teams—ICE, CBP, FBI, ATF, Marshals, and Park Police—are operating without clear insignia, obscuring jurisdiction and diffusing accountability. #Trump #ICE #CBP #FBI #ATF #USMarshals #Accountability #DigitalRepression #NPR

Camouflaging cars and swapping license plates: How agents make immigration arrests Immigration enforcement officers are sometimes forgoing license plates or otherwise masking their cars while apprehending migrants across the U.S.

CE and CBP are conducting immigration arrests using vehicle practices that violate state law, including plate removal and deceptive tagging, signaling a shift toward extralegal federal enforcement. #Trump #ICE #CBP #RuleOfLaw #DigitalRepression #ImmigrantRights #NPR

Camouflaging cars and swapping license plates: How agents make immigration arrests Immigration enforcement officers are sometimes forgoing license plates or otherwise masking their cars while apprehending migrants across the U.S.

ICE and CBP are obstructing public oversight by concealing agency identity, masking vehicles, and withholding information, creating an unaccountable enforcement environment. #Trump #ICE #CBP #Accountability #DigitalRepression #PressFreedom #NPR

Camouflaging cars and swapping license plates: How agents make immigration arrests Immigration enforcement officers are sometimes forgoing license plates or otherwise masking their cars while apprehending migrants across the U.S.

ICE and CBP agents are using unmarked vehicles, removed plates, and deceptive tags during arrests, signaling a shift toward covert and unaccountable enforcement tactics. #Trump #ICE #CBP #DigitalRepression #ImmigrantRights #Accountability #NPR

DHS Withdraws Subpoena Seeking to Unmask Instagram Users Who Posted About ICE Raids | ACLU of Northern CA

DHS used a subpoena to pressure Meta to unmask anonymous Instagram accounts documenting ICE raids in Los Angeles, revealing a federal strategy to criminalize protest documentation and strip online anonymity. #Trump #DHS #ICE #DigitalRepression #ImmigrantRights #LosAngeles #ProtestRights #ACLUNC

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Justice isn’t abstract anymore. It’s tangled in the same networks that fund think tanks, shape public stories, and silence the vulnerable.

Nov 26 | Women, Technology, and Peacemaking Webinar: 25 Years after UNSCR 1325 - The Citizen Lab Join us for a timely conversation on how digital repression and surveillance are reshaping women’s participation in peacebuilding and the Women, Peace and Security agenda.

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The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist Zine Daniel Sanchez is facing federal charges for what free speech advocates say is a clear attack on the First Amendment.

Federal prosecutors escalate efforts to criminalize protest journalism by labeling documentation materials as “Antifa propaganda.” #Trump #ICE #Antifa #ProtestJournalism #CourtWatch #DigitalRepression #TheIntercept

The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist Zine Daniel Sanchez is facing federal charges for what free speech advocates say is a clear attack on the First Amendment.

Federal prosecutors move to classify political literature as terrorism evidence in the PrairieLand ICE case, marking a major escalation toward ideological criminalization. #Trump #ICE #PrairieLand #IdeologicalCriminalization #DigitalRepression #TheIntercept

DHS Agreement Reveals Risks of Using Social Security Data for Voter Citizenship Checks A recently released agreement gives the Department of Homeland Security access to hundreds of millions of Americans’ Social Security data. It contains alarmingly few provisions to ensure accuracy and ...

DHS fused flawed Social Security citizenship data with the SAVE system to build a federal voter-surveillance and immigration-enforcement pipeline, risking wrongful voter removals and expanding executive control over civic data. #Trump #DHS #SSA #SAVE #VoterSuppression #DigitalRepression #ProPublica

Documents offer rare insight on Ice’s close relationship with Palantir For years, little was known about the multibillion-dollar company that handles data for the US immigration enforcement agency. Now, a cache of emails, training documents and reports sheds light on how...

Palantir provides ICE with its data backbone, integrating government and commercial databases into a nationwide deportation and surveillance system. #Trump #ICE #Palantir #ImmigrationOS #DigitalRepression #ImmigrationSurveillance #SurveillanceState #NoTechForICE #TheGuardian

FBI Caught Spying on Signal Group Chat of Immigration Activists Keep a close eye on who’s joining your group chats.

The FBI infiltrated an encrypted Signal group used by immigration court‑watch volunteers and labeled them violent extremists in a nationwide intelligence bulletin. #Trump #FBI #NYPD #DigitalRepression #SurveillanceState #ImmigrationRights #CourtWatch #NewRepublic

Cops Used Flock to Monitor No Kings Protests Around the Country A massive cache of Flock lookups collated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) shows as many as 50 federal, state, and local agencies used Flock during protests over the last year.

Law enforcement used the Flock ALPR network to track No Kings protesters nationwide, integrating federal and local surveillance pipelines into political‑activity monitoring. #Trump #DHS #BorderPatrol #ALPR #Flock #NoKings #ProtestSurveillance #DigitalRepression #404Media

No Kings, No Monopolies: How App Store Gatekeepers Enable Authoritarianism | TechPolicy.Press Meher Sethi discusses how the app-store duopoly enables government pressure, including censorship of apps like ICEBlock, and poses growing risks to democracy.

Federal pressure on Apple and Google enabled the removal of community‑protection apps tracking ICE activity, advancing a new phase of digital repression. #Trump #DHS #ICE #DigitalRepression #AppStores #CivilRights #Immigration #TheTechPress

Cyber Operations on Domestic Networks Redux What happens if Trump deploys cyber forces in the U.S.?

Big Tech now functions as an operational arm of Trump’s cyber authority—its cooperation activates domestic military cyber operations against civilians; only refusal slows the system. #Trump #CyberCommand #BigTech #DigitalRepression #CorporateInfrastructure #Lawfare

Cyber Operations on Domestic Networks Redux What happens if Trump deploys cyber forces in the U.S.?

Trump’s legal framework authorizes military cyber operations against U.S. civilians—targeting activists, journalists, and political networks under terrorism and rebellion claims. #Trump #CyberCommand #DomesticSurveillance #DigitalRepression #CivilMilitary #Lawfare

Tomorrow 22nd, 15h00 CET, #EP Delegation for #Iran exposes how the Iranian Regime weaponises the internet:

➡️blackouts
➡️mass surveillance
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against activists & civil society.

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“We need more sustainable funding, especially in digital security spaces. Tech is evolving, but our needs are the same ones – fighting the same fights. We need to find funding that links different impacts, like digital security and environmental impacts.”

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“We’re in survival mode”: Women human rights defenders on digital repression and movement sustainability Women human rights defenders (WHRDs) have long been at the centre of struggles for justice, democracy, and freedom – from resisting authoritarianism and defending land to advancing gender rights and d...

“We’re in survival mode”: Women human rights defenders on digital repression and movement sustainability

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