🚨 Tips to help you minimize your digital footprint when protesting:
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2024/11/12/protest-surveillance-technologies
Just Futures Law
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We are women of color-led movement lawyers working with grassroot organizers to dismantle mass surveillance, incarceration, and deportation systems. Learn more: justfutureslaw.org
Fusion centers run by DHS are just another workaround for laws protecting our communities. Immigration officials use them as a middleman to request info from local law enforcement, in cities where sanctuary laws prohibit just that.
https://www.wired.com/story/ice-sanctuary-cities-fusion-centers/
Immigration Police Can Already Sidestep US Sanctuary City Laws Using Data-Sharing Fusion Centers
Built to combat terrorism, fusion centers give US Immigration and Customs Enforcement a way to gain access to data that’s meant to be protected under city laws limiting local police cooperation with ICE.
“Once you start using this, without guardrails, what we’ve seen in all of these cases around the world, is democracy falls away and suddenly people who don’t expect to be on lists are being targeted and it’s a basis for them being intimidated.”
Adding to our watch list for this holiday week.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WLbHs_S-Fzc&t=260s&pp=2AGEApACAQ%3D%3D
Ronan Farrow explains how your phone could be used to spy on you
"While the private prison industry stands to make billions off Trump’s deportation plans, it’s worth noting that ripping millions of workers out of the country will crater the economy."
https://newrepublic.com/post/188359/donalnd-trump-ice-immigration-surveillance
"When localities are collecting tons of info about their residents it becomes ripe for exploitation by any administration to try and target and locate all sorts of people,"
For Trump, the target is immigrants- but once in play, anyone can become a target.
Movement lawyering takes time, dedication, and resources. Today as we celebrate the global day of giving, we are asking you to support our work by making a donation to Just Futures Law. #GivingTuesday
ICYMI: Groups are urging POTUS to take steps NOW to protect vulnerable immigrant communities from the planned mass deportations and family separation of the upcoming administration.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4991322-biden-immigrant-protections-trump-deportations/
This article offers some really great tips on how to protect your data as we head into a second Trump term, where we can expect the administration to exploit America’s digital surveillance machine.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-wired-guide-to-protecting-yourself-from-government-surveillance/
Many of the platforms/tech that we use daily are complicit in the genocide in Palestine, or at the very least supportive of the Israeli state.
The #NoTechForApartheid folks have done a great job of exposing these relationships, now it's up to us to decide what that means.
Just sharing some resources for those of you who care about data privacy as much as we do!
https://lifehacker.com/tech/discretion-instantly-hides-faces-and-anonymizes-metadata-in-photos
