ICE is building a social media panopticon

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement carries retired raids crossed the country, the bureau is moving rapidly to grow an online surveillance strategy that could perchance way millions of users connected the 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, the communications manager astatine the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP), calls an "assault" connected ideology and escaped speech.

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

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