ICE just signed a contract with facial recognition company Clearview AI
The contract comes after months of scrutiny of Clearview’s privacy practices
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) signed a contract with facial recognition company Clearview AI this week for “mission support,” government contracting records show (as first spotted by the tech accountability nonprofit Tech Inquiry). The purchase order for $224,000 describes “clearview licenses” and lists “ICE mission support dallas” as the contracting office.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/14/21368930/clearview-ai-ice-contract-privacy-immigration
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The contract comes after months of scrutiny of Clearview’s privacy practices
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) signed a contract with facial recognition company Clearview AI this week for “mission support,” government contracting records show (as first spotted by the tech accountability nonprofit Tech Inquiry). The purchase order for $224,000 describes “clearview licenses” and lists “ICE mission support dallas” as the contracting office.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/14/21368930/clearview-ai-ice-contract-privacy-immigration
#USA #ClearViewAI #ICE #surveillance #privacy
Palantir filed to go public. The firm's unethical technology should horrify us
Palantir powers Ice immigration raids, the defense sector and police surveillance. It is the big tobacco of the tech world
In 2017, the Trump administration first set its sights on a target it would return to repeatedly in the coming years: immigrant children.
Thousands of kids were crossing the border alone, often seeking to reunify with families living in the United States. The journey is harrowing for children, but the alternative is life in a separated family – an easy choice for most parents, who often pay to bring their kids across.
But this presented officials with a question: how to implement the president’s anti-immigration campaign promises against child migrants?
The answer was simple: go to the source by prosecuting and imprisoning their parents. Criminally charge the parents as smugglers, separate them from their families, and others would be dissuaded from bringing their children across, officials hoped.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/04/palantir-ipo-ice-immigration-trump-administration
#US #Palantir #ICE #surveillance
Palantir powers Ice immigration raids, the defense sector and police surveillance. It is the big tobacco of the tech world
In 2017, the Trump administration first set its sights on a target it would return to repeatedly in the coming years: immigrant children.
Thousands of kids were crossing the border alone, often seeking to reunify with families living in the United States. The journey is harrowing for children, but the alternative is life in a separated family – an easy choice for most parents, who often pay to bring their kids across.
But this presented officials with a question: how to implement the president’s anti-immigration campaign promises against child migrants?
The answer was simple: go to the source by prosecuting and imprisoning their parents. Criminally charge the parents as smugglers, separate them from their families, and others would be dissuaded from bringing their children across, officials hoped.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/04/palantir-ipo-ice-immigration-trump-administration
#US #Palantir #ICE #surveillance
the Guardian
Palantir filed to go public. The firm's unethical technology should horrify us | Marisa Franco
Palantir powers Ice immigration raids, the defense sector and police surveillance. It is the big tobacco of the tech world
Hootsuite Denied Providing Tech to ICE. This Contract Shows That It Did
Hootsuite has yet to provide any evidence it has or will end its contract with ICE.
On Wednesday night, an employee at Vancouver-based tech company Hootsuite revealed on Twitter that the company was working with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“Been debating talking about this publicly because I don’t want to get fired, but it seems like the cat’s already out of the bag so whatever: yesterday Hootsuite signed a three-year deal with ICE. Over 100 employees have been extremely vocal in their opposition to this deal,” the employee tweeted, adding that support team members in Mexico City relayed their personal experiences of harassment by ICE to no avail.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgx75b/hootsuite-denied-providing-tech-to-ice-this-contract-shows-that-it-did
#US #ICE #Hootsuite #contracts
Hootsuite has yet to provide any evidence it has or will end its contract with ICE.
On Wednesday night, an employee at Vancouver-based tech company Hootsuite revealed on Twitter that the company was working with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“Been debating talking about this publicly because I don’t want to get fired, but it seems like the cat’s already out of the bag so whatever: yesterday Hootsuite signed a three-year deal with ICE. Over 100 employees have been extremely vocal in their opposition to this deal,” the employee tweeted, adding that support team members in Mexico City relayed their personal experiences of harassment by ICE to no avail.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgx75b/hootsuite-denied-providing-tech-to-ice-this-contract-shows-that-it-did
#US #ICE #Hootsuite #contracts
Vice
Hootsuite Denied Providing Tech to ICE. This Contract Shows That It Did
Hootsuite has yet to provide any evidence it has or will end its contract with ICE.
Salaat First: Another Popular Muslim Prayer App Sells Location Data to FBI, ICE
Salaat First shared location data with a French firm Predicio which had customers including Venntel, a US government contractor.
The methods of surveillance have changed over time. Nowadays, government agencies do not need to follow someone to track their activities. Mobile phone users, unknowingly, hand over their privacy rights to the tech companies that in turn sell it to government contractors. A popular Muslim prayer app, named Salaat First, found selling users' location data to its partner that has customers with the US government agencies including the FBI and the ICE.
Salaat First, which reminds its users about Muslim prayer timings, has been downloaded over 10 million times on Android. To accurately tell users prayer times, Salaat First asks for permission to read precise location, has access to device ID, phone, media storage, USB storage and full network access. However, the app developer was selling the same user data to its partner, a French firm named Predicio.
https://www.ibtimes.sg/salaat-first-another-popular-muslim-prayer-app-sells-location-data-fbi-ice-54843
#US #France #FBI #ICE #surveillance #location #data
Salaat First shared location data with a French firm Predicio which had customers including Venntel, a US government contractor.
The methods of surveillance have changed over time. Nowadays, government agencies do not need to follow someone to track their activities. Mobile phone users, unknowingly, hand over their privacy rights to the tech companies that in turn sell it to government contractors. A popular Muslim prayer app, named Salaat First, found selling users' location data to its partner that has customers with the US government agencies including the FBI and the ICE.
Salaat First, which reminds its users about Muslim prayer timings, has been downloaded over 10 million times on Android. To accurately tell users prayer times, Salaat First asks for permission to read precise location, has access to device ID, phone, media storage, USB storage and full network access. However, the app developer was selling the same user data to its partner, a French firm named Predicio.
https://www.ibtimes.sg/salaat-first-another-popular-muslim-prayer-app-sells-location-data-fbi-ice-54843
#US #France #FBI #ICE #surveillance #location #data
International Business Times, Singapore Edition
Salaat First: Another Popular Muslim Prayer App Sells Location Data to FBI, ICE
Salaat First shared location data with a French firm Predicio which had customers including Venntel, a US government contractor.
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This is what happens when ICE asks Google for your user information
You’re scrolling through your Gmail inbox and see an email with a strange subject line: A string of numbers followed by “Notification from Google.”
It may seem like a phishing scam or an update to Gmail’s terms of service. But it could be the only chance you’ll have to stop Google from sharing your personal information with authorities.
Tech companies, which have treasure troves of personal information, have become natural targets for law enforcement and government requests. The industry’s biggest names, such as Google, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, receive data requests — from subpoenas to National Security Letters — to assist in, among other efforts, criminal and non-criminal investigations as well as lawsuits.
An email like this one is a rare chance for users to discover when government agencies are seeking their data.
In Google’s case, the company typically lets users know which agency is seeking their information.
In one email The Times reviewed, Google notified the recipient that the company received a request from the Department of Homeland Security to turn over information related to their Google account. (The recipient shared the email on the condition of anonymity due to concern about immigration enforcement). That account may be attached to Gmail, YouTube, Google Photos, Google Pay, Google Calendar and other services and apps.
The email, sent from Google’s Legal Investigations Support team, notified the recipient that Google may hand over personal information to DHS unless it receives within seven days a copy of a court-stamped motion to quash the request.
https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2021-03-24/federal-agencies-subpoena-google-personal-information
#ice #federal #agencies #google #DeleteGoogle #personal #data #information #thinkabout
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You’re scrolling through your Gmail inbox and see an email with a strange subject line: A string of numbers followed by “Notification from Google.”
It may seem like a phishing scam or an update to Gmail’s terms of service. But it could be the only chance you’ll have to stop Google from sharing your personal information with authorities.
Tech companies, which have treasure troves of personal information, have become natural targets for law enforcement and government requests. The industry’s biggest names, such as Google, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, receive data requests — from subpoenas to National Security Letters — to assist in, among other efforts, criminal and non-criminal investigations as well as lawsuits.
An email like this one is a rare chance for users to discover when government agencies are seeking their data.
In Google’s case, the company typically lets users know which agency is seeking their information.
In one email The Times reviewed, Google notified the recipient that the company received a request from the Department of Homeland Security to turn over information related to their Google account. (The recipient shared the email on the condition of anonymity due to concern about immigration enforcement). That account may be attached to Gmail, YouTube, Google Photos, Google Pay, Google Calendar and other services and apps.
The email, sent from Google’s Legal Investigations Support team, notified the recipient that Google may hand over personal information to DHS unless it receives within seven days a copy of a court-stamped motion to quash the request.
https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2021-03-24/federal-agencies-subpoena-google-personal-information
#ice #federal #agencies #google #DeleteGoogle #personal #data #information #thinkabout
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Los Angeles Times
This is what happens when ICE asks Google for your user information
If you want to stop Google from providing your personal information to authorities who have issued an administrative subpoena, you need to act fast.