Ice Is Building A Social Media Panopticon

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement carries retired raids crossed nan country, nan agency is moving quickly to grow an online surveillance strategy that could perchance way millions of users connected nan web. Federal records uncovered by The Lever uncover that ICE is paying $5.7 cardinal to usage an AI-powered societal media monitoring level called Zignal Labs, thing Will Owen, nan communications head astatine nan Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP), calls an "assault" connected populist and free speech.

The "real-time intelligence" level is tin of ingesting and analyzing immense amounts of publically disposable data, for illustration societal media …

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