Week in Review: Cameras, Classifiers, and What Happens to Your Data When the Company Dies
Facial recognition on the Tube. A four-year-unpatched criminal records portal. An airline's emails and 30 million recorded calls sold for $10 million....
ICE
8 articles on ICE.
ICE Pulled a $125 Million Sole-Source Contract and Nobody Should Feel Relieved
ICE withdrew its no-bid $125 million surveillance-data award to Thomson Reuters and will compete it instead, with a solicitation expected 24 August. I...
Somebody Finally Mapped the Pipe: DecryptAds Puts 284 Million Ad Supply-Chain Records in the Open
For years the answer to 'who exactly received my location when that app loaded an ad?' has been that nobody outside the industry could know. DecryptAd...
ICE Outsourced Finding People — 13 Private Firms, 50,000 Names a Month, and AI Doing the Looking
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has issued open-ended skip-tracing contracts to 13 private companies worth up to $1.2 billion over two years. Each...
100,000 Cameras and a Reckoning: How Flock Safety Became America's Most-Cancelled Surveillance Company
Flock Safety's automatic license plate readers now number more than 100,000 across the United States, quietly logging where your car goes and building...
Palantir Built ICE a Deportation Map Using Your Medicaid Records. Here's How It Works.
ICE's ELITE tool — built by Palantir — populates a real-time map of deportation targets using data including Medicaid records from 80 million patients...
70+ Civil Liberties Groups Want Meta to Stop Its Facial Recognition Smart Glasses. An Internal Memo Explains Why They're Worried.
A coalition of 70+ organisations including the ACLU and EFF is demanding Meta halt its 'Name Tag' facial recognition feature for Ray-Ban and Oakley sm...
Inside the DHS Contractor Leak: 6,681 ICE Vendors Exposed — Including a Company Building a Microwave Vehicle Stopper
A hacktivist group claiming to have breached DHS released contractor records tied to ICE enforcement. Buried in the data is a funded contract for a mi...