There's no privacy structure in place to manage this highly sensitive data transfer, and the lack of privacy is *by design.* USAID was gutted, and even then routine health/humanitarian data sharing btwn/with states knowingly heightens local vulnerabilities and is a practice of colonial domination.

“A court has already struck down an agreement between the IRS and Homeland Security to illegally share ITINs and other personal information. A contract to buy that same information from private data brokers is a clear end-around both taxpayer privacy laws and a court order.”

There's no privacy structure in place to manage this highly sensitive data transfer, and the lack of privacy is *by design.* USAID was gutted, and even then routine health/humanitarian data sharing btwn/with states knowingly heightens local vulnerabilities and is a practice of colonial domination.

NEW: Across Africa, the State Department has demanded access to health data for millions of people as a condition of giving countries billions of dollars in aid needed to address HIV, malaria, tuberculosis and other illnesses.

Just Futures Law is seeking a wealth of documents related to the tech Palantir provides to ICE.

"Many of the redactions in the documents center around what ICE describes as trade secrets and records compiled for law enforcement purposes. We believe the redactions are an overreaction, withholding information in the public interest about what capabilities ICE bought and for what purpose."

The opening page of the Florida AG's lawsuit against OpenAI is quite the statement.

On Reddit, Orange County residents are very justifiably angry that local authorities are posting vital evacuation information on X and Instagram…which both require accounts if you want to be able to view videos easily and completely. How many people use neither? This has got to stop.

@makenakelly.bsky.social SCOOP: Palantir employees voiced their discomfort about how their work was supporting ICE, so the company put together a hackathon for them to "fix" the problem in the form of new tools Spoiler: the company still has billions in DHS contracts www.wired.com/story/palant...

ICE agents are walking around with a list of 20 million people to detain in their pockets because of this Palantir database: www.404media.co/ice-agents-h...

A DHS official and another person who attended a recent conference described the plans to 404 Media.

Thousands of schools around the US were paralyzed on Thursday after education tech firm Instructure shut down access to its Canvas platform following a breach by hackers going by the name ShinyHunters. www.wired.com/story/canvas...

The two are already toxically intertwined (along with universities…) —it’s not a “vision of the future.” Yikes.

4th Cir. holds there is no Bivens remedy for inmate who alleged federal prison officials delayed medical treatment and used excessive force during his incarceration. www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/246...

WOW: Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak have the memos that describe the origins of SCOTUS shadow docket - the 2016 order halting Obama’s Clean Power Plan @jodikantor.bsky.social @adamliptak.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

People arrested while protesting ICE say federal agents took samples of their DNA. It's legal, but experts say the practice raises questions about what the government is doing with that genetic data.

Threats to infrastructure are a big reason people are leaving the Gulf right now. Yes, missile interceptors will eventually run out, but keep in mind that interruptions to water & power would be devastating. 99% of Qatar’s municipal water (what is used in homes) comes from desalination.

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

The floor plan for the planned ICE concentration camp in Social Circle, Georgia:

It goes back much further. This is a common practice during worksite raids. This happened during a 2018 raid in Trump’s first term, and the Biden DOJ ended up settling a lawsuit about it.

Like 75% of the US Olympic curlers are from Minnesota. A lot of them curl out of two clubs in Saint Paul, one club is in Frogtown, a neighborhood that has been very heavily targeted by ICE. These curlers are good neighbors.

jeeeeeeesus: theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...

I tell you what, Ring figured out exactly how to weaponize white people’s empathy in service to a corporately controlled surveillance state. Tell them it will find your dog.

Both Kendrick Lamar’s + Bad Bunny’s halftime performances featured street posts/utility poles with cameras as commentary on the panopticon surveillance state, the politics of the power grid, + colonialism. The performed subversive imagery transcends all language barriers without question.

In case anyone forgot or didn't understand the reference www.wgbh.org/news/2017-10...

"God Bless America:" then he lists most of the countries in the hemisphere starting with Chile I think? this rules

This is a dismantling of the ENTIRE asylum legal regime. The family has a pending asylum claim. There's no legal basis for expedited removal, which has now perversely been expanded to include any "noncitizen," anywhere, anytime. In fact, seeking asylum is an *exception* to expedited removal.

If you've been laid off by the Washington Post this week and have any questions re: digital security, please email me on [email protected]. I'll help you pro-bono for the rest of the month.

BREAKING: Judge blocks Noem's second attempt to keep members of Congress out of immigration facilities. U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb issued a temporary restraining order on Monday morning. New, at Law Dork:

Social movement scholars: I have a student interested in the practice of "recruitment disruption," e.g., trying to get people not to work for banks financing fossil capital. Is there any social movement scholarship on this tactic or anything like it? It's sort of like a boycott, but for labor.

You don't have to have worked on network theory + surveillance to understand that plain implications of Palantir's tech used by ICE. Its name (ELITE) basically gives carte blanche to bounty hunters: Enhanced Leads Identification & Targeting for Enforcement.

This is the Admin's racially-motivated tactic to moot asylum claims + deport ppl *before* they're even heard, rendering asylum seekers "illegal" in the face of int'l law + US statutes. Father/son were navigating the (lawful) asylum process. No legal reason existed to detain (eg, crim record). /1

We have long assumed this to be coming from the second Trump admin and under current pervasive carceral sanism it will take fighting tooth and nail to stop it, if they choose to pursue it. Talked about this with @reallandsend.bsky.social & @city.bsky.social here: on.soundcloud.com/38SNrN9ZpGVp...

"The situation highlights one of the problems with taking a commercial surveillance product and turning it into a searchable, connected database of people’s movements and of the police activity of thousands of departments nationwide."

Reminder that the same, ubiquitous legal research databases the field uses have large, profitable data contracts with ICE— Westlaw (Thomson Reuters) + LexisNexis (RELX)—fueling state surveillance and posing serious ethical concerns when it comes to professional ethics, big data policing, & AI use.

SCOOP: 404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. One can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.

We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.

I wish I could believe that even this admin couldn't be this dumb Fiona Hill's testimony during Trump's 2019 impeachment hearing: “the Russians at this particular juncture were signaling very strongly that they wanted to somehow make some very strange swap arrangement between Venezuela and Ukraine"

Btw, Trump Admin terminated Temporary Protection Status (TPS) for Venezuela in October. (although it’s being fought in the courts)

Is “owning” Venezuelan oil land also in the Court’s imagination of the “history and tradition” of the US?

According to documents WIRED obtained via a public record request, the LDWF signed a memorandum of agreement with ICE in May, which gives the wildlife agency the authority to detain people suspected of immigration violations and to transfer them into ICE custody. www.wired.com/story/story/...

W/holding funds from blue states in exchange for turning over SNAP immigration data is in line w/ and facilitative of the fed. "public charge" rule change penalizing immigrants for receiving life-sustaining state aid, where being a "public charge" is a criterion for detention/deportation. Awful.

Concerning SCOTUS is likely to hold for the Gov't in Urias-Orellana v. Bondi. Fed. crts. of appeals would defer to the Board of Immig. Appeals' (BIA) factual persecution determination rather than conduct de novo review. This puts a high bar to prove you have credible fear at the point of BIA review.

Until now, many people did not appreciate that immigration judges (IJs) are *not* Article III judges. IJs serve at the discretion of the U.S. Atty Gen as administrative judges w/in the DOJ. Immigration law has (in part) always been xenophobically, by design, at the whim of the Exec. branch.

You know it's going to be a good @strictscrutiny.bsky.social on Chiles v. Salazar (First Am. challenge of a CO law restricting 'conversion therapy' as 'professional conduct') when it starts with "but all of that, of course, assumes that the law is real, and that the Court honors and observes it."

This was never a dignifying "alternative to detention" (ATD). Dehumanizing in its own right against the individual, ankle monitors also allow the state to surveil broader immigrant communities by tracing who you come into contact with, creating networks of individuals for detention + deportation.

Evidence of this Admin's highly alarming push to criminalize *lawful* immigration court observation + know-your-rights projects as "domestic terrorism," outside 1A protection. A surveillance tactic (community mapping + infiltration) taken directly from the post-9/11 targeting of Muslim communities.