How ICE is watching you: A rundown of some of the tech the government is deploying to identify and spy on us

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How ICE is watching you: A rundown of some of the tech the government is deploying to identify and spy on us - Lemmy.World

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ICE also uses AI-powered apps to analyze social media activity and other digital data points to create “life profiles” for people of interest.

The agency has spent at least $5 million on Tangles, a sophisticated tool developed by a company with ties to Israel’s cyber-intelligence community, Forbes reported in September. Tangles mines social media posts, event sign-ups, mobile contacts, location data and more to create nuanced individual portraits and tease out patterns of activity — including organizing and protest — in specific places.

This has always been the goal of facebook. Everything like it falls in that bucket. For the eleventy billionth time, Get the fuck off of them.

ICE Just Spent Millions On Surveillance Tech Banned By Facebook

ICE has spent over $5 million on social media and dark web monitoring software that critics say enables warrantless surveillance.

Forbes