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SLC Tribune - The Colorado county sheriff’s office whose deputy pulled over a student during a traffic stop — and let her go with a warning — has discovered its info was secretly shared with ICE, leading to the student’s federal detainment just minutes later. https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2025/06/17/ice-detains-utah-student-after/

ICE detained University of Utah student after gaining secret access to Colorado deputy’s communications, sheriff’s office says

The Colorado county sheriff’s office whose deputy first pulled over a University of Utah student — and let her go with a warning — has since discovered that its information was being secretly shared with ICE, leading to her detainment.

The Salt Lake Tribune

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UNREAL Jun 18

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An internal investigation by the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office in western Colorado found that messages from an encrypted Signal chat it had with state and federal law enforcement for drug interdiction efforts were being passed on — without its knowledge — to ICE agents “to extrapolate immigration information for the purposes of ICE enforcement.”

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Peter Jun 18

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Primary thoughts on this I originally posted elsewhere:

As always, tools are beholden to their users.

Some of the details in this story affirm my confidence in the instructions I gave my 11yo when she was (without reason) concerned about being arrested:

**It's not easy, but it's simple - STFU.**

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KanaMauna Jun 18

@w7voa

Tailgating? Do they even pull people over for that? And what legitimate reason would he have to report her to the drug chat that – oopsie – ICE had access to?

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Katrina Katrinka

Jun 18

@KanaMauna @w7voa
This report says he accused her of having an accent, that she doesn't have.

Sounds like the Sheriff's office is trying to blame ICE for their racial profiling.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2025/06/12/university-utah-student-being-held/

University of Utah student is being held at Colorado immigration detention center

A 19-year-old University of Utah was detained by immigration agents last week in Colorado and is now being held at an immigration center there. “We’re not in jail with her, but we feel like it," said a relative of Caroline Dias Goncalves.

The Salt Lake Tribune

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KanaMauna Jun 18

@w7voa @katrinakatrinka

He was probably disappointed that she didn’t put out.

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DoNotPunchDown Jun 18

@katrinakatrinka @KanaMauna @w7voa

My feeling watching that bodycam was she was pulled over for being cute

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KanaMauna Jun 18

@DoNotPunchDown @katrinakatrinka @w7voa

Exactly

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Nicole Parsons Jun 18

@w7voa

When Larry Ellison said last fall that data would be "shared" for AI training to find cancer cures, he was lying about the real goal.

Surveillance platforms owned & funded by the fossil fuel industry & racist apartheid-era tech oligarchs.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/13/trump-tech-execs-riyadh/

De-siloed data is a privacy-violating security nightmare for civil rights.
https://www.benzinga.com/markets/earnings/25/06/45909157/larry-ellison-says-most-of-the-worlds-valuable-data-is-in-oracle-as-ai-demand-skyrockets

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/larry_ellison_wants_all_data/

https://www.benzinga.com/analyst-ratings/analyst-color/25/05/45424189/nvidia-amazon-tesla-palantir-among-top-beneficiaries-of-1-trillion-saudi-arabia-ai-push-analyst-says

https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-ellison-ai-surveillance-keep-citizens-on-their-best-behavior-2024-9

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnipresent-ai-cameras-will-ensure-good-behavior-says-larry-ellison/

https://qz.com/openai-palantir-anthropic-aws-ai-startups-us-defense-1851693801

Why these tech titans joined Trump in Saudi Arabia

A cavalcade of tech leaders was on hand in the Saudi capital for an investment summit presided over by President Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

The Washington Post

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