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Surveillance Tooling Newly Acquired By ICE Can Track Entire Neighborhoods Without A Warrant
A new report by 404 Media outlines the expansive surveillance capabilities of software tools acquired rapidly by ICE. The piece expands on earlier work chronicling ICE’s surveillance equipment shopping spree over the last year (which CCDBR also shared in … Read more »
Chicago-Area Law Enforcement Repeatedly Violated State Drone Disclosure Regulations
According to The Chicago Reader, multiple law enforcement agencies operating in Chicago have failed to comply with state drone use disclosure laws. The report focuses on the most recent of these violations, detailing how the Cook County Sheriff’s … Read more »
ICE Arrogates the Right to Scan the Face of Any US Resident, at Any Time, for Any Reason
A new article from 404 Media reports that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has deployed a new mobile application to agents’ devices which allows them to subject anyone they encounter to facial recognition. Shockingly, the piece cites an internal … Read more »
ICE Digital Arms Buildup Equipping Agency for Mass Surveillance Operations
A new piece from Reason warns that ICE is rapidly acquiring the tools to conduct mass surveillance operations. While these capabilities are being amassed in the name of enforcing immigration law and detaining violent agitators coincident to anti-ICE demonstrations, the … Read more »
Trump Administration Threatens to Wield FCC Against Speech Foes
As reported by NPR, Trump-appointed FCC Chair Brendan Carr has made thinly veiled threats to revoke ABC’s broadcast license over comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s remarks on Trump ally Charlie Kirk. After Kimmel made remarks regarding Kirk’s assassin which many conservatives … Read more »
Trump Administration Closes in on Free Speech with Conspiracy Charges Against Protester
According to a new article in The Guardian, a nonviolent anti-ICE demonstrator is facing federal conspiracy charges. The accused, Bajun Mavalwalla II, attended a social media-publicized meetup at a DHS facility in Spokane, WA to oppose ICE detentions, … Read more »
Trump Attempts to Erode Free Speech with Executive Order Prosecuting Flag-Burning
As detailed in a press release issued by FIRE, Trump is attempting to chip away at free speech with a newly signed executive order cracking down on flag-burning. The new decree from Trump represents the latest and most dangerous … Read more »
CCDBR Ally Lucy Parsons Labs Wins Major Battle for Police Transparency
According to a new report in The Guardian, a judge ruled in favor of plaintiffs suing to force the Atlanta Police Foundation to disclose records in its possession. The resultant disclosure numbered some 300 pages, and pertains to … Read more »
With the Help of a Good DOGE, Trump Admin Unleashes Federal Data Aggregation Practices
A new piece in The Hill underscores the dangers of Trump’s moves to consolidate all the federal government’s data stores. Leading the charge is Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is insatiably chewing through records from widely-ranging government … Read more »
Trump Admin Continues Aerial Surveillance Creep with CBP Drone Deployed Over LA
The Guardian has reported that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) deployed a surveillance-capable drone in response to the anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles. In a statement, CBP maintains that the drone’s mission is purely to ensure the safety of … Read more »
