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2026
Police Unmask Millions of Surveillance Targets Because of Flock Redaction Error• 404 Media
Today•Flockwarrantless surveillancepolicesurveillancelicense plate readersprivacy
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Privacy advocates: ICE using private data to intimidate observers and activists
Today•warrantless surveillancesurveillanceprotestprivacylicense plate readersmovement repressionICE
How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
5 days ago•FlockhackingICEimmigrationprivacywarrantless surveillancesurveillance
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods• 404 Media
5 days ago•ICEwarrantless surveillancesurveillancephones
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ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
6 days ago•ICEwarrantless surveillancesurveillanceimmigrationspywaresocial medialicense plate readersstingraysPalantirlocation trackinghackingfacial recognitionAI
2025
Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves• 404 Media
Dec 22•warrantless surveillanceFlocklicense plate readershacking
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Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It• 404 Media
Dec 9•legalphones
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The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist Zine• The Intercept
Nov 23•legalmovement repressionICE
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal• The Guardian
Nov 21•FBIinfiltrationICEimmigrationsurveillance
The FBI Wants AI Surveillance Drones With Facial Recognition• The Intercept
Nov 21•FBIfederal governmentfacial recognitionsurveillancedrones
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
Good summary of many of the recent surveillance advances and attack escalations against activists
Nov 21•surveillanceICEFBImovement repression
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with ‘suspicious’ travel patterns
Nov 20•DHSICElicense plate readerswarrantless surveillancesurveillance
How Cops Are Using Flock Safety's ALPR Network to Surveil Protesters and Activists• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Nov 20•Flocklicense plate readerspolice
Judge Rules Flock Surveillance Images Are Public Records That Can Be Requested By Anyone• 404 Media
Nov 12•Flocklicense plate readersprivacycourtslegalpolice
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DHS Gives Local Cops a Facial Recognition App To Find Immigrants• 404 Media
Nov 4•DHSICEfacial recognitionsurveillance
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Someone Snuck Into a Cellebrite Microsoft Teams Call and Leaked Phone Unlocking Details• 404 Media
Oct 30•phonesphone hackingsurveillance
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ICE Just Bought A Social Media Surveillance Bot
Oct 23•policesocial mediawarrantless surveillancesurveillance
FBI Agents Visit Anti-ICE Protester• Ken Klippenstein
Shows us how the witch hunt for "antifa" is beginning to look. Particularly interesting that this person knew no one at the protest, but the agents claimed that "your name came up." Which means he was surveilled in some other way.
Oct 23•FBImovement repressionsurveillanceprotest
“Antifa” Protesters Charged With Terrorism for Constitutionally Protected Activity• The Intercept
Oct 17•FBIICElegalmovement repression
Amazon’s Ring now works with video surveillance company Flock• The Verge
Oct 17•warrantless surveillanceFlockbig tech
ICE amps up its surveillance powers, targeting immigrants and antifa• The Washington Post
Oct 17•surveillanceICEphone hackingfacal recognitionlocation tracking
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ICE, Secret Service, Navy All Had Access to Flock's Nationwide Network of Cameras• 404 Media
Oct 16•surveillancewarrantless surveillanceFlocklicense plate readers
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Inside the War on Antifa• Ken Klippenstein
Feds target "affinity" groups, informant networks, the Tides Foundation, and more.
Oct 15•TrumpsurveillanceFBImovement repression
The Surveillance Empire That Tracked World Leaders, a Vatican Enemy, and Maybe You
See all publications related to this multi-newsroom reporting effort and the technical explanation of how this occurs.
Oct 14•warrantless surveillancesurveillancelocation trackingphones
Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Oct 7•abortion accesslicense plate readersFlocksurveillancepolice
ICE purchased vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones• TechCrunch
Oct 7•ICEstingrayssurveillancephones
ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day• 404 Media
Sep 30•surveillancelocation trackingICEphones
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ICE Doesn't Want You To Know Why They Bought a Phone Cracking System• Reason
Sep 29•ICEphone hackingsurveillancephones
Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”• Ken Klippenstein
Sep 27•Trumpmovement repressionorganizations
Rayhunter: What We Have Found So Far• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Sep 10•stingraysphonescounter-surveillance defense
EFF Statement on ICE Use of Paragon Solutions Malware• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Sep 5•spywareICEphonessurveillance
Newly Revealed FBI Document Confirms Collaboration Between DC Police and Discredited Far-Right Group Project Veritas
Aug 26•FBImovement repressioninfiltration
LAPD Eyes ‘GeoSpy’, an AI Tool That Can Geolocate Photos in Seconds• 404 Media
Aug 13•surveillancelocation trackingpolice
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Feds Used Local Cop's Password to Do Immigration Surveillance With Flock Cameras• 404 Media
Aug 12•ICElocation trackingFlocksurveillancelicense plate readers
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Columbia University admissions applications stolen by right-wing hacker• The Verge
Jul 9•right-winghacking
Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications• 404 Media
Jun 4•big techiPhonesurveillancephones
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Activists say southeast Michigan police raids are targeting pro-Palestinian protesters
Apr 23•FBIPalestine solidaritymovement repression
Car Subscription Features Raise Your Risk of Government Surveillance, Police Records Show• Wired
Apr 20•surveillance
Judge Rules Blanket Search of Cell Tower Data Unconstitutional• 404 Media
Apr 18•courtsphones
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Inside a Powerful Database ICE Uses to Identify and Deport People• 404 Media
Apr 9•surveillancePalantirICE
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Canada using Israeli spyware (Paragon's Graphite)• The Guardian
Mar 19•spywarepolicesurveillanceoutside the US
LAPD Surveilled Gaza Protests Using This Social Media Tool• The Intercept
Mar 17•social mediasurveillancepolicePalestine solidarity
The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring• 404 Media
Here is a direct link to the spreadsheet with all 200+ sites listed.
Mar 12•surveillancesocial mediaICE
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US to revoke student visas over ‘pro-Hamas’ social media posts flagged by AI – report• The Guardian
Mar 6•social mediasurveillanceAIPalestine solidarity
Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Mar 4•counter-surveillance stingraysdefensephones
Authorities worldwide can see more than ever, with Big Tech as their eyes
Feb 27•big techgovernment data requests
Cameras have appeared outside homes of Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ activists. Why are they there?• The Guardian
Feb 14•policemovement repressionsurveillance
ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online• The Intercept
Feb 11•ICEsurveillancesocial media
FBI’s Warrantless Search Ruled Unconstitutional in a Blow to Government Spying• The Intercept
Highlights the fact that the NSA does in fact participate in surveillance of US citizens even though they are supposted to be focused on ferign threats.
Jan 27•FBINSAgovernment data requests
2024
Location Data Firm Offers to Help Cops Track Targets via Doctor Visits• 404 Media
Dec 10, 2024•Fog Data Sciencelocation trackingphonessurveillanceabortion access
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Exxon lobbyist investigated over hack-and-leak of environmentalist emails, sources say
Nov 27, 2024•corporate surveillance/hackingclimate
Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults and Brothels in Germany• Wired
Nov 19, 2024•data brokerslocation trackingwarrantless surveillance
Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics• 404 Media
Oct 23, 2024•abortion accesssurveillancelocation trackingphoneswarrantless surveillance
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Suppression by Surveillance: Protest Movements and the Corporate Surveillers Profiting Off Fear
Aug 28, 2024•social mediawarrantless surveillance
Federal Appeals Court Finds Geofence Warrants Are “Categorically” Unconstitutional• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Aug 12, 2024•location trackingphonescivil libertiescourts
Atlanta police surveil people opposing ‘Cop City’: ‘There’s this constant stalking feeling’• The Guardian
May 29, 2024•surveillancepolicemovement repression
Documents Reveal How DC Police Surveil Social Media Profiles and Protest Activity
Apr 30, 2024•movement repressionpolicesurveillancedata brokerssocial media
2023
Police seized 5 computers, 2 cell phones in raid on Kansas newspaper
Reminder about why it is important to enable encryption on your computer and phone.
Aug 14, 2023•policeencryption
The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens• Wired
Jun 12, 2023•warrantless surveillancefederal government
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COINTELPRO 2.0: How the FBI Infiltrated BLM Protests After Police Murder of George Floyd• Democracy Now
Feb 7, 2023•FBIBLMmovement repressioninfiltration
2021
Law enforcement agencies across the US ran thousands of Clearview AI facial recognition searches
Apr 6, 2021•warrantless surveillanceAIfacial recognition