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“It is important that your office shine light on activities that undergird ICE\u2019s enforcement actions including a muddled patchwork of technology advertisement<\/p>\n <\/p>\n advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n “DHS law enforcement agencies have moved to amass potentially sensitive personal data with the unprecedented $165 billion DHS was allocated during last year\u2019s partisan They cite several examples, including Immigrations and Custom Enforcement’s recent request for information<\/a> about how “Big Data and ad tech providers” could support ICE said in that request, published late last week in the Federal Register, that it aims “to understand the current state of Ad Tech compliant and The lawmakers also referenced other moves by Homeland Security — including its October 2025 request for information<\/a> “to hire 30 social media surveillance contractors to collect information from social Additionally, they note that the agency entered into a contract The letter comes the same month as the federal government’s controversial “Operation Metro Surge” immigration enforcement effort “We are horrified by the videos and reports of masked federal law enforcement officers seizing mothers from their vehicles while dropping their kids off at school, gassing “We are deeply concerned that ICE\u2019s surge in brutality against American communities is being facilitated by the They are requesting an investigation into Homeland Security’s methods for collecting and analyzing <\/a><\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" … request for information about ad tech<\/span> providers. "It is … including a muddled patchwork of technology<\/span> procurements that have significantly … quot;Big Data and ad tech<\/span> providers" could support … current state of Ad Tech<\/span> compliant and location data …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nprocurements that have significantly expanded DHS\u2019 ability to collect, retain, and analyze information about Americans,” Virginia Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine said in a letter<\/a> sent Thursday to DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nreconciliation process,” the lawmakers add.<\/p>\n
\ninvestigations activities.<\/p>\n
\nlocation data services available to federal investigative and operational entities, considering regulatory constraints and privacy expectations of support investigations activities.”<\/p>\n
\nmedia and commercial databases and build profiles on individuals” for its enforcement and removals division.<\/p>\n
\nwith facial recognition company Clearview AI.<\/p>\n
\nin Minneapolis. That initiative has resulted in detentions of thousands of people — including young children as well as U.S. citizens — and injuries to civillians. Earlier this month, agents shot
\nand killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis — Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Agents in the city also shot a third person in the leg, and used a “flash bang” grenade and teargas on a family — including
\na 6-month-old.<\/p>\n
\nchildren in their neighborhoods, demanding proof of citizenship based on an individual\u2019s appearance, threatening peaceful protesters, and the broad dragnet operations arresting, injuring, and
\ntraumatizing entire communities,” the senators write.<\/p>\n
\ninappropriate and unsupervised use of surveillance technology,” they add.<\/p>\n
\ndata, and seek answers to a host of specific questions — including whether U.S. citizens have been detailed based on biometric data, and whether the agency has (or previously had) “information
\nsharing agreements” with social media companies.<\/p>\n