Here’s the Company That Sold DHS ICE’s Notorious Face Recognition App
On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security published new details about Mobile Fortify, the facial recognition app that federal immigration agents use as a method…
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He Leaked the Secrets of a Southeast Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive
The next morning in Bangkok, he called the agent, an East African man who summarily told him to take a 12-hour bus ride to Chiang…
Revealed: Leaked Chats Expose the Daily Life of a Scam Compound’s Enslaved Workforce
Just before 8am one day last April, an office manager who went by the name Amani sent out a motivational message to his colleagues and…
Judge Delays Minnesota ICE Decision While Weighing Whether State Was Being Illegally Punished
A federal judge on Monday declined to immediately curb the federal operation that has put armed agents on the streets of Minneapolis and St. Paul,…
Deepfake ‘Nudify’ Technology Is Getting Darker—and More Dangerous
Open the website of one explicit deepfake generator and you’ll be presented with a menu of horrors. With just a couple of clicks, it offers…
The Instant Smear Campaign Against Border Patrol Shooting Victim Alex Pretti
Within minutes of Alex Pretti being shot and killed by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis on Saturday, the Trump administration, backed by right-wing influencers,…
ICE Asks Companies About ‘Ad Tech and Big Data’ Tools It Could Use in Investigations
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is asking companies to provide information about “commercial Big Data and Ad Tech” products that would “directly support investigations activities,”…
DOGE May Have Misused Social Security Data, DOJ Admits
Law enforcement authorities in the United States have for years circumvented the US Constitution’s Fourth Amendment by purchasing data on US residents that would otherwise…
US Judge Rules ICE Raids Require Judicial Warrants, Contradicting Secret ICE Memo
A federal judge in Minnesota ruled last Saturday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents violated the Fourth Amendment after they forcibly entered a Minnesota…
CBP Wants AI-Powered ‘Quantum Sensors’ for Finding Fentanyl in Cars
United States Customs and Border Protection is paying General Dynamics to create a prototype of “quantum sensors” alongside a “database with artificial intelligence” designed “to…
149 Million Usernames and Passwords Exposed by Unsecured Database
A database containing 149 million account usernames and passwords—including 48 million for Gmail, 17 million for Facebook, and 420,000 for the cryptocurrency platform Binance—has been…
ICE Agents Are ‘Doxing’ Themselves
Last week, a website called ICE List went viral after its creators said that they had received what they described as a leak of personal…