As Immigration and Customs Enforcement carries out raids across the country, the agency is working rapidly to expand an online surveillance system that could potentially track millions of users on the web. Federal records uncovered by The Lever reveal that ICE is paying $5.7 million to use an AI-powered social media monitoring platform called Zignal Labs, something Will Owen, the communications director at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP), calls an “assault” on democracy and free speech.
The “real-time intelligence” platform is capable of ingesting and analyzing vast amounts of publicly available data, like social media …
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Original Source: https://www.theverge.com/policy/806425/ice-social-media-surveillance-free-speech-assault
Original Source: https://www.theverge.com/policy/806425/ice-social-media-surveillance-free-speech-assault
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