An in-depth look at how ICE, under Obama and then Trump, has aggressively used big data, fed by social media, to clamp down on undocumented immigrants
a testament to the agency's quiet embrace of big data. https://www.nytimes.com/... “Surveillance works best when you don't notice it.” Tim Shorrock / @timothys : NYT reports that, via public record requests, it has “extensive proof that ICE relies on state D.M.V. databases and information products like CLEAR, from Thomson Reuters, to target immigrants.” Reuters, you might ask? Yes, you heard that right. https://www.nytimes.com/... ngel S. Daz / @angelsdiaz_ : A comprehensive account of the technologies that power the American deportation machine. I read this nodding along to all the connections being drawn while struggling to keep my heart from dropping into my stomach. https://www.nytimes.com/... Aaron Reichlin-Melnick / @reichlinmelnick : This article makes a compelling case that we're soon approaching the era of algorithmic immigration enforcement. This should trouble even the staunchest defenders of ICE—you need only look at China to see the direction that infrastructure leads toward. https://twitter.com/... April Glaser / @aprilaser : this made me cry. technology is not and has never been a neutral tool https://www.nytimes.com/... Peter Sterne / @petersterne : ICE increasingly resembles a secret police force that surveillance and then disappears ordinary people. And it acts in accordance with a parallel system of law (immigration courts) that lacks the traditional protections of our judicial system. That's scary. https://twitter.com/... NYT / @nytmag : The winter after Donald Trump was elected president, two strangers arrived in a parking lot on Washington State'sLong Beach Peninsula. For weeks, they sat in their vehicle and watched the workers arrive in their trucks. Then the workers began to vanish https://www.nytimes.com/... McKenzie Funk / @mckenziefunk : ICE officers rolled in knowing names, nicknames, numbers, addresses, license plates, emails, social-media handles, patterns of life. “They knew everything,” residents said. I decided to find out how. Many months + many records requests later, some answers: https://www.nytimes.com/... McKenzie Funk / @mckenziefunk : Sixth lesson: You can't just delete your account, not with utilities and phone companies selling your info to data brokers, not with facial recognition and automated license plate readers spreading to every corner. We're datafying the physical space. McKenzie Funk / @mckenziefunk : Thread: In late 2017, I heard about an immigration crackdown in the supposed sanctuary state of Washington. ICE arrested a mom selling a piñata on Facebook. A grandpa who'd filed U.S taxes for almost 20 years. A school social worker. Dozens from one coastal county. McKenzie Funk / @mckenziefunk : Fourth lesson: Without social media and without private contractors providing data services, including @thomsonreuters, @VigilantSol, and many, many others, ICE would have a harder time finding people where they live. McKenzie Funk / @mckenziefunk : A second lesson: It's harder to stop data-sharing than it was to start. It's not that norms are changing and our personal info is just out there on social media, not just that. It's that after 9/11 we networked system after system so we'd never again fail to “connect the dots.” Diana Budds / @dianabudds : “What may be most unusual about Washington State is not what it collects and not what it has shared but the degree to which it has been forced to become transparent about the vast quantity of personal data that courses through its bureaucracy.” https://www.nytimes.com/... One Ring / @hypervisible : “If we can have completely accurate and completely pervasive surveillance, people won't notice and it won't be surveillance.” Yes. That's wrong. It's all wrong. pic.twitter.com/asJQDP38Ps William Fitzgerald / @william_fitz : this is the best story i've read about how ice is using tech. it's truly horrifying what we've created and enabled. must read for anyone interested in #notechforice https://www.nytimes.com/... David Beard / @dabeard : A piñata, a Facebook ad and poof: How ICE makes longtime residents disappear. Pictured: He lost his girlfriend, they lost their mother. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/... One Ring / @hypervisible : CLEAR, a Thomson Reuters collect it all tool “..isn't restricted by protections on what data the government can collect or keep — because it isn't government-owned.” 😐 https://twitter.com/... One Ring / @hypervisible : LP reader company has “...more than five billion historic images captured continually and automatically, thousands per minute, by infrared devices attached to lampposts and police cars and repossession-agent vehicles across the United States.” https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Fifth: Those same data brokers sell to other agencies big and small, federal and local. This machine starts but doesn't have to end with immigrants. The same infrastructure harnessed by ICE could be used to profile and target any category of undesirable.
What happens when we don't act or care about the oceans of data out there and how it can be used against people as a surveillance deportation machine. @McKenzieFunk https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
an important, long & detailed investigation on how ICE infiltrates, probes, and uses big data to track people down, and on shifting tactics: https://www.nytimes.com/...
The business of deportation has been transformed by the power of big data. Over the course of more than a year, our writer tried to reverse-engineer how ICE officers use America's vast post-Sept. 11 domestic-surveillance apparatus. https://www.nytimes.com/...
How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age After two officers came to a Pacific Northwest community, longtime residents began to disappear — a testament to the agency's quiet embrace of big data. https://www.nytimes.com/... “Surveillance works best when you don't notice it…
NYT reports that, via public record requests, it has “extensive proof that ICE relies on state D.M.V. databases and information products like CLEAR, from Thomson Reuters, to target immigrants.” Reuters, you might ask? Yes, you heard that right. https://www.nytimes.com/...
A comprehensive account of the technologies that power the American deportation machine. I read this nodding along to all the connections being drawn while struggling to keep my heart from dropping into my stomach. https://www.nytimes.com/...
This article makes a compelling case that we're soon approaching the era of algorithmic immigration enforcement. This should trouble even the staunchest defenders of ICE—you need only look at China to see the direction that infrastructure leads toward. https://twitter.com/...
ICE increasingly resembles a secret police force that surveillance and then disappears ordinary people. And it acts in accordance with a parallel system of law (immigration courts) that lacks the traditional protections of our judicial system. That's scary. https://twitter.com/..…
The winter after Donald Trump was elected president, two strangers arrived in a parking lot on Washington State's Long Beach Peninsula. For weeks, they sat in their vehicle and watched the workers arrive in their trucks. Then the workers began to vanish https://www.nytimes.com/..…
ICE officers rolled in knowing names, nicknames, numbers, addresses, license plates, emails, social-media handles, patterns of life. “They knew everything,” residents said. I decided to find out how. Many months + many records requests later, some answers: https://www.nytimes.com…
Sixth lesson: You can't just delete your account, not with utilities and phone companies selling your info to data brokers, not with facial recognition and automated license plate readers spreading to every corner. We're datafying the physical space.
Thread: In late 2017, I heard about an immigration crackdown in the supposed sanctuary state of Washington. ICE arrested a mom selling a piñata on Facebook. A grandpa who'd filed U.S taxes for almost 20 years. A school social worker. Dozens from one coastal county.
Fourth lesson: Without social media and without private contractors providing data services, including @thomsonreuters, @VigilantSol, and many, many others, ICE would have a harder time finding people where they live.
A second lesson: It's harder to stop data-sharing than it was to start. It's not that norms are changing and our personal info is just out there on social media, not just that. It's that after 9/11 we networked system after system so we'd never again fail to “connect the dots.”
“What may be most unusual about Washington State is not what it collects and not what it has shared but the degree to which it has been forced to become transparent about the vast quantity of personal data that courses through its bureaucracy.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
“If we can have completely accurate and completely pervasive surveillance, people won't notice and it won't be surveillance.” Yes. That's wrong. It's all wrong. pic.twitter.com/asJQDP38Ps
this is the best story i've read about how ice is using tech. it's truly horrifying what we've created and enabled. must read for anyone interested in #notechforice https://www.nytimes.com/...
A piñata, a Facebook ad and poof: How ICE makes longtime residents disappear. Pictured: He lost his girlfriend, they lost their mother. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
CLEAR, a Thomson Reuters collect it all tool “..isn't restricted by protections on what data the government can collect or keep — because it isn't government-owned.” 😐 https://twitter.com/...
LP reader company has “...more than five billion historic images captured continually and automatically, thousands per minute, by infrared devices attached to lampposts and police cars and repossession-agent vehicles across the United States.” https://www.nytimes.com/... https://…