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Kelly Bescherer

@kbescherer.bsky.social
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PhD-ing in Lüneburg/Berlin ( #deportation, #legalidentity, #technology), legal advisor @kubberlin.bsky.social , FOI enthusiast..

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Kelly Bescherer @kbescherer.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Thanks to my colleagues in the DigID project for organizing such an interactive workshop! (digitalidentities.eu) We received feedback on our work "counter-mapping" the transnational field of digital ID, heard many fascinating inputs, and had some very hands-on interactions with biometrics..
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Max Bernhard @mxbernhard.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Seems like the worst time to start sharing your citizens' biometric data with the US government
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Kelly Bescherer @kbescherer.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Super excited to share that my first peer-reviewed article is now online! Co-authored with the wonderful Stephan Scheel - we discuss struggles around "proving" identity in the context of deportation, regularisation, and asylum in an increasingly digitized landscape: dx.doi.org/10.1111/imig...
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Regimes of Proof: On Contested Identities in Border and Migration Control
The capacity to establish migrants' legal identities is key to states' attempts to control access to their territories. This paper introduces the concept of regimes of proof to shed light on this oft...
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Kelly Bescherer @kbescherer.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
This is terrifying
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Fight Chat Control @fightchatcontrol.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
IMPORTANT UPDATE: 
Denmark has scheduled a vote on Chat Control the 14th of October. Despite not wanting to break end-to-end encryption, 🇩🇪 Germany remains both UNDECIDED and critical to defeating the proposal. 
If you are German, contact your Bundestag members today via fightchatcontrol.de !
Screenshot of the Fight Chat Control website (https://fightchatcontrol.eu/) in German showing the Bundestag members. It is now possible to contact Bundestag members directly to express your concerns about Chat Control.
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netzpolitik.org @netzpolitik.org · 01/10/2025
In den kommenden Tagen wird die Bundesregierung entscheiden, wie sie am 14. Oktober in der EU zur #Chatkontrolle abstimmt. Eines ist klar: Kommt die Chatkontrolle, wird es keine verschlüsselte und sichere Kommunikation mehr geben. netzpolitik.org/2025/anlassl...
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Anlasslose Massenüberwachung: Messenger Signal wird Deutschland verlassen, wenn Chatkontrolle kommt
In den kommenden Tagen wird die Bundesregierung entscheiden, wie sie am 14. Oktober in der EU zur Chatkontrolle abstimmt. Eines ist klar: Kommt die Chatkontrolle, wird es keine verschlüsselte und sich...
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CCC @ccc.de · 01/10/2025
Chat Control would make it mandatory for service providers to scan all communications & files. There’s no system that’s only for the “good guys” www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... #chatkontrolle
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Chat Control Is Back on the Menu in the EU. It Still Must Be Stopped
The European Union Council is once again debating its controversial message scanning proposal, aka “Chat Control,” that would lead to the scanning of private conversations of billions of people. Chat…
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Matthias Monroy @matthimon.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Nachtrag: auch #Google knickt ein, nimmt #RedDot zugunsten der #ICE-Miliz aus dem Playstore: www.404media.co/google-calls...
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Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’
The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.
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Die KuB (selbstverwaltete Beratungsstelle) @kubberlin.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Verwaltungsarbeit findet oft im Hintergrung statt, aber sie ist eine sehr wesentliche Voraussetzung für unsere Beratungs- und Unterstützungsarbeit! Eine tolle Kollegin in diesem Bereich verlässt uns leider und wir suchen ab März wieder Verstärkung: kub-berlin.org/de/mitmachen...
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Bezahlte Stellen · Kontakt- und Beratungsstelle für Flüchtlinge und Migrant_innen e. V.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.
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‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe
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Camilo Pérez-Bustillo @cperezbustillo.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
es-us.noticias.yahoo.com/14-mexicanos...
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Hay 14 mexicanos detenidos en el centro de detención Alligator Alcatraz; México envía nota diplomática para su repatriación
La presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum confirmó que hay más de una decena de mexicanos retenidos en uno de los centro de detención migratoria más polémico de EU.
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Abschiebungsreporting NRW @abschiebungnrw.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Ibrahima Barry war lange von #Abschiebung bedroht. Heute vor 18 Monaten starb er bei einem Polizeieinsatz in #Mülheim an der Ruhr. Er wurde mit dem Taser beschossen. Die Staatsanwaltschaft #Duisburg schweigt. Der Solikreis "Justice für Ibrahima" erinnert. www.instagram.com/solikreis_ju...
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Justice for Ibrahima Barry on Instagram: "18 Monate ohne Aufklärung von Ibrahima Barrys Tod."
108 likes, 0 comments - solikreis_justiceforibrahima on July 5, 2025: "18 Monate ohne Aufklärung von Ibrahima Barrys Tod.".
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Kelly Bescherer @kbescherer.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
If you are able, we always need support to maintain our legal advice work! Here's also a cute video of my colleagues ...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...
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ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...
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Kelly Bescherer @kbescherer.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Happy to see that people are expressing outrage about Frontex's disturbing children's literature on deportation.. an FOI I made last year about this is mentioned here
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Kelly Bescherer @kbescherer.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I also stumbled across this truly disturbing Frontex publication last year and made an FOI asking for correspondence about its creation: prd.frontex.europa.eu/document/cor... it doesn't reveal much, though, beyond how completely normal and routine the book's creators apparently seem to think it was
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Correspondence on publications for children in return
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Sophia Goodfriend @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
The Trump administration has unleashed a massive domestic surveillance apparatus, thanks to AI systems supplied by major tech firms I wrote about its origins and impact on the ground for @dissentmag.bsky.social and the @theintercept.com www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
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The AI Dragnet - Dissent Magazine
The U.S. government is activating a suite of algorithmic surveillance tools, developed in concert with major tech companies, to monitor and criminalize immigrants’ speech.
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Die KuB (selbstverwaltete Beratungsstelle) @kubberlin.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Liebe alle, zwischen allem was sonst los ist, machen wir mit unserer Arbeit weiter und besetzen dafür eine Stelle in der Rechtsberatung nach. 25 h/Woche ab 1. Juni, vorerst befristet bis Ende Dez wegen Finanzlage, aber gedacht längerfristig. Gerne weitersagen! kub-berlin.org/de/mitmachen...
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Bezahlte Stellen · Kontakt- und Beratungsstelle für Flüchtlinge und Migrant_innen e. V.
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Kelly Bescherer @kbescherer.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Come work with me! We are looking for someone to join our legal counseling team.. kub-berlin.org/de/mitmachen...
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Bezahlte Stellen · Kontakt- und Beratungsstelle für Flüchtlinge und Migrant_innen e. V.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 21/04/2025
“A new dataset, visualized as maps, reveals the extent to which African workers are indirectly employed in the tech sector, doing content moderation, customer service, and data annotation for AI models, among other jobs.”
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How Big Tech hides its outsourced African workforce
New data reveals the hidden network of African workers powering AI, as they push for transparency from the global companies that employ them indirectly.
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Kelly Bescherer @kbescherer.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
In further concerning news from Germany.. the only thing these protesters are concretely accused of is calling the police "fascist" in one case..
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
The ICE arrests are meant to terrorize dissenters and crush the intellectual freedom that’s the whole point of universities—and the tactic is having its intended effect. Thanks to these professors for fighting back. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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We’re Harvard Professors Suing the Trump Administration. Here’s Why. | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
Universities are currently on the front lines of a battle for basic civil liberties. We must fight for the values — and the people — that define us. This lawsuit is a start.
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Ayça Çubukçu @aycacu.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Everyone who speaks up makes it safer for others to do so. Everyone who stays silent makes it more dangerous for those who do speak up. The time is now folks. “Thousands protest after Tufts grad student arrested by ICE, transferred out of state” www.boston.com?post_type=po...
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Thousands protest after Tufts grad student arrested by ICE, transferred out of state
Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts PhD student, was transferred to Louisiana despite a court order to keep her in the state.
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Kelly Bescherer @kbescherer.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Germany's new conservative government is discussing abolishing access to information laws..
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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Speak up for Momodou Taal. Your silence will not protect you. Academics outside the US esp have a moral duty to publicly come out in support and organise. ICE will disappear Momodou Taal. Your trips to the US can wait, seriously! theintercept.com/2025/03/21/t...
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He Sued Trump Over Free Speech. Then ICE Demanded He Turn Himself In.
Cornell student Momodou Taal’s lawyers said the demand was “retribution” for his lawsuit against the crackdown on pro-Palestine speech.
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Camilo Pérez-Bustillo @cperezbustillo.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
FREE HIM!! "Dr. Badar Khan Suri, a postdoctoral fellow in peace and conflict studies at Georgetown University was detained by Department of Homeland Security agents on his way home from teaching an evening class on March 17" www.dropsitenews.com/p/georgetown...
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Georgetown Postdoc the Latest to Be Detained by ICE as Crackdown on Campus Speech Widens
Badar Khan Suri was detained by DHS agents after a public campaign against him and his wife by pro-Israel groups.
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Die KuB (selbstverwaltete Beratungsstelle) @kubberlin.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Morgen wollen wir unsere Soli-Kasse für Ratsuchende füllen, ein bisschen tanzen und uns gegenseitig Kraft für die darauffolgende Woche aus der Hölle zusprechen. Wir sind da, ihr sicher auch und es wird gut werden! Ganze Einladung hier: stressfaktor.squat.net/node/310743
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Die KuB (selbstverwaltete Beratungsstelle) @kubberlin.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Bei uns in der KuB wird ab März eine Stelle in der Frauenberatung frei, in der wir schwangere, alleinerziehende und gewaltbetroffene geflüchtete Frauen beraten. Sie ist Teil des Berliner Netzwerks für besonders schutzbedürftige geflüchtete Menschen (BNS). kub-berlin.org/images/jobs/...
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Kelly Bescherer @kbescherer.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Inaugurating my account here 🦋
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Kelly Bescherer @kbescherer.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
check out this important project from Statewatch and Migration Control monitoring border externalization, a collective effort that I've been one of the many people involved in..
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