#ICE Seeks #Cyber Upgrade to Better #Surveil and Investigate Its Employees
The agency plans to renew a sweeping #cybersecurity contract that includes expanded employee #monitoring as the government escalates #leak investigations and casts internal dissent as a threat.
#surveillance #privacy #security
https://www.wired.com/story/ice-seeks-cyber-upgrade-to-better-surveil-and-investigate-its-employees/
You Shouldn’t Have to Make Your #SocialMedia Public to Get a #Visa
The #Trump administration is continuing its dangerous push to #surveil and suppress foreign students’ social media activity. The #StateDepartment recently announced an unprecedented new requirement that applicants for student and exchange visas must set all social media accounts to “public” for government review
#privacy
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/you-shouldnt-have-make-your-social-media-public-get-visa
The Trump administration is continuing its dangerous push to surveil and suppress foreign students’ social media activity. The State Department recently announced an unprecedented new requirement that applicants for student and exchange visas must set all social media accounts to “public” for...
Tell your local #UK council: Ban Crime-Predicting Police Tech
#Police are using so-called crime-predicting technology to #surveil, monitor us without our #consent
These are built on flawed data
Police already have extensive powers which they use to target, #harass, stop & search innocent people
We want to feel safe - crime-predicting tech will fail to protect us & harass innocent individuals
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/write-your-local-council-ban-‘crime-predicting’-police-tech
Police are using so-called “crime-predicting” technology to surveil and monitor us - without our consent! Police use these technologies to target people and neighbourhoods BEFORE crimes take place. These technologies are built on existing, flawed, police data, so communities who have historically been over policed are more likely to be identified as at ‘risk’ of future criminal behaviour. Police already have extensive powers which they use to target, harass and stop and search innocent people.
No wiretap systems, no misuse 🤷♀️
FBI confirms China-backed hackers breached US telecom giants to steal wiretap data
"The U.S. government has confirmed [Insert whatever actor here] #breached multiple U.S. #telecommunication service providers to access the #wiretap systems used by #LawEnforcement to #surveil Americans."
https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/14/us-confirms-china-backed-hackers-breached-telecom-providers-to-steal-wiretap-data/
Could the #UN #cybercrime treaty be a #Russian ‘Trojan horse’? - POLITICO
The Biden administration has weeks left to decide how to vote on a controversial U.N. cybercrime treaty, which critics say could empower nations like #Russia and #China to more easily #surveil their citizens.
#surveillance #rights #privacy #trojanhorse
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/26/un-cybercrime-treaty-white-house-russia-00181271
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