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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 40m

⚠️ ICE documents obtained through a FOIA lawsuit show the agency: 🔺 Collected tens of millions of voter records 🔺 Considered sending undercover agents to go after voting nonprofits 🔺 Weighed investigating voting machines 👀➡️ demdock.com/4ybyK4L

The image shows large red text stating "48.4M," with smaller text below explaining that this is the number of records obtained by ICE from a noted election denier, related to an alleged voter fraud hunt before the 2026 midterms.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

new: A third-party surveillance company is telling cops that it wants to add facial recognition to Flock footage and ALPR reads to help them "close the gap" in what Flock offers. Company offers racial analysis, gender analysis, behavior analysis www.404media.co/surveillance...

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Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras

A surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I received a survey from Computer Science that was not going to be anonymous. It asked for how we were using AI in teaching and research. First I criticized the research design, then the uncritical adoption pointing out all the problems including that it has beat my love of teaching out of me.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 25/09/2026

“This is one part of the surveillance and intelligence wing that ICE is building,” EFF’s @cooperq.com told @fedscoop.bsky.social. “It’s a big part of it, but it’s still just one part. ... It’s going to feed in and be indexed alongside all this other surveillance equipment and pipelines.”

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ICE awards contested, controversial surveillance contract to Thomson Reuters

Documents shared exclusively with FedScoop offer insight into the initial contract awarded six years ago that acted as a critical building block in DHS’s current surveillance apparatus.

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Salomé Viljoen @salome.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

today, SCOTUS essentially agreed that willful violations of the 1974 Privacy Act the Social Security Act, and the Administrative Procedure Act, resulting in the transfer of sensitive SSA data on basically every American, is fine...as long as you're handing that data off to ICE

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meaghan elizabeth @meaghanelizabeth.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Ravens’ “flock in” marketing slogan is not doing the same work it used to before the Flock ALPR era. Particularly not on a 295 billboard, on which road there IS a newly installed Flock camera…

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meaghan elizabeth @meaghanelizabeth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Yes, "what a ridiculous use of Flock," but this case also tells us something important: how license plate reader tech is used to police misdemeanors, perpetuating the racially-unjust misdemeanor mill that over-criminalizes low-level offenses (trash disposal) + traps ppl in the crim justice system.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

New: Texas cops who used Flock to search 80,000 cameras nationwide for a woman who had an abortion used Axon's AI to write up their police report about the incident. The tech "summarized" police discussion over whether a crime had been committed www.404media.co/texas-police...

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Texas Police Used AI to Write Report About Using Flock to Search for Woman Who Had Abortion

The incident shows how quickly police departments have come to use AI surveillance tools even in critically sensitive cases.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

NEW: The Justice Department concluded that a 1998 law requires states who use key safety net programs (TANF + SSI) to report to DHS anytime it identifies an immigrant living unlawfully in the country. It's a reversal/expansion of DOJ's previous analysis. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

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DOJ says states must report all undocumented immigrants — or lose federal funds

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WIRED @wired.com · 31/08/2026

After an affair with a fellow police officer ended, a Georgia cop used Flock to track her movements—and those of a man whose vehicle often showed up near hers, internal investigation records show. www.wired.com/story/a-geor...

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A Georgia Cop Used Flock to Track 2 Other Cops: His Ex and Her Friend

After an affair with a fellow police officer ended, a Georgia cop used Flock to track her movements—and those of a man whose vehicle often showed up near hers, internal investigation records show.

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meaghan elizabeth @meaghanelizabeth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Wishing this piece captured religious surveillance as a long-standing—not novel, but presently amplified—state tactic. It likens the present to 1950s E. Europe. But what about the more recent NYPD Muslim Surveillance Program that embedded police informants in mosques + obtained prayer app data?

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Churches, libraries and breweries: Inside DHS' covert surveillance operation

DHS allegedly went undercover at community meetings, subpoenaed the financial records of labor unions, and created dossiers on people at a church gathering, according to court filings.

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 27/08/2026

Now you can opt out of having your posts shown to non-followers in the Discover feed. We know not everyone wants to go viral. Sometimes you're just posting for your followers. This is one of a few updates we're working on to give you more control over your experience and help you find your people.

Instructional image titled "Hide your posts from non-followers in Discover" accompanied by a screenshot of the "privacy and security" options from the Bluesky settings menu. "Ask apps to hide my posts from algorithmic recommendations" is toggled to the "on" state.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

New: ICE wants the country's voter data ICE is looking for contractors that can help the agency access and handle the country's voter registration and history data. This is to look for what it calls 'fraud', which has been a pretense for mass immigration raids www.404media.co/ice-wants-th...

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ICE Wants the Country’s Voter Data

Voting data is public by design, but ICE is looking for a federal contractor to help it handle voter registration and history files to find what it describes as fraud.

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WIRED @wired.com · 25/08/2026

Rolando Perez Samayoa came to Illinois in 2023 in search of safety. The state's TRUST Act keeps local law enforcement out of federal deportation efforts. But after a DUI arrest last October, ICE descended upon Samayoa and his 17-year-old son.

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The County Prosecutors Who Became ICE Informants

Illinois prosecutors shared defendants’ personal data with federal immigration agents without criminal warrants, public disclosure, or legislative oversight.

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Matthew Hoppock @hoppock.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I just got a FOIA back about the EOIR's Office of Chief Administrative Hearing Officer that raises really serious questions about whether that agency is functioning lawfully. My initial review says they're not. There's no functioning CAHO. A thread, because the documents are kind of wild. 🧵

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WIRED @wired.com · 08/08/2026

Homeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe. Now it wants private investigators to find them in their home countries and collect.

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DHS Is Hiring Bounty Hunters to Find and Photograph Deported People’s Homes Abroad

Homeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe. Now it wants private investigators to find them in their home countries and collect.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Finally: this may become the largest immigration prison in the Midwest, and it will be located in the very right-leaning Eighth Circuit. I am certain that the administration knows this.

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 03/08/2026

Palantir reports Q2 revenue up 93% YoY to $1.94B, vs. $1.8B est., US commercial revenue up 149%, and raises FY 2026 revenue guidance; PLTR jumps 9%+ after hours (Samantha Subin/CNBC) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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WIRED @wired.com · 02/08/2026

One day after a federal judge ordered an ICE detention center opened to state health inspectors, the agency posted new contract terms that would void state oversight at four facilities.

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ICE’s New Detention Center Contracts Declare State Laws ‘Shall Not Apply’

One day after a federal judge ordered an ICE detention center opened to state health inspectors, the agency posted new contract terms that would void state oversight at four facilities.

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404 Media @404media.co · 29/07/2026

NEW: “I am fully of the notion that clapping is a First Amendment right that I have. I can exercise that as long as I'm not disrupting, and I still argue that I was not disrupting at all." 404 Media's @mjgault.bsky.social spoke to the person who was arrested for clapping at a data center meeting.

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“Clapping Is a First Amendment Right:” An Interview With the Person Arrested for Clapping at a Data Center Meeting

"I have a right to speak. I'm here to speak. I have a right to clap, and if you want me out, you're going to have to drag me out."

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meaghan elizabeth @meaghanelizabeth.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Data privacy, cooptation, + gov't sharing: longstanding INGO issues. "The World Food Program is re-opening its self-registration app for Gaza aid recipients . . . [2+] months after a cyber-attack exposed sensitive personal information belonging to . . . almost the entire population of the enclave."

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WFP restarts Gaza aid registration app, but cyber-attack questions linger

As data collection resumes, partners and donors seek greater accountability and transparency regarding WFP's data security.

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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

NEW: OpenAI’s “rogue” AI agent didn’t just breach Hugging Face — it also hacked multiple third-party accounts and services. It's now clear that the incident was more extensive than the company initially disclosed.

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OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face

In a new disclosure, OpenAI says its agent used exposed logins to gain access to at least four “publicly available services” in its unhinged quest to solve a test.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

New from 404 Media: a leaked document shows the surveillance tech at ICE's fingerprints. We obtained the document, called "ICE Wide Analytical Tools" and are publishing it in full here. It includes everything from phone location data, to facial rec, to tracking cars www.404media.co/leaked-docum...

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Leaked Document Shows the Surveillance Tech at ICE’s Fingertips

From phone location data, to social media monitoring, to online undercover tools, a document obtained by 404 Media lays out the surveillance tech available across ICE agency wide.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

On Tuesday, the full Fifth Circuit granted DOJ's request for a "precedential stay" of district court rulings holding that the Due Process Clause requires bond hearings for immigration detainees w/in 90 days of their arrest. Today's "One First" explains why that's a really big (and problematic) deal:

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Bonus 239: The Fifth Circuit's "Precedential Stay" in Sosnava Rodriguez

The Fifth Circuit once again did the government's bidding on immigration detention—this time through an unexplained procedural move I've never seen before.

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404 Media @404media.co · 17/07/2026

A new procurement record says ICE wants access to personal data, including names, Social Security numbers, and ethnicity, to investigate in part what the agency calls “voters fraud.” It also plans to use the data to investigate immigration fraud.

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ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125 Million to Find ‘Voter Fraud’

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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026

A statement from WIRED leadership.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The Justice Department appears to have included a fake AI-generated. citation in an ICE detainee's case. Judge Jarbou, a Trump appointee in Michigan, called it out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Come work at the @fordschool.bsky.social at U Michigan. We are recruiting for a scholar studying democracy, its functioning and threats, broadly considered. careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan invites applications for a tenured faculty position focused on teaching, research, and public engagement in the emerging field of democracy policy: an area of public policy research that treats democracy as a policy domain with identifiable problems, measurable outcomes, and actionable interventions. Just as health outcomes are dependent on health policy rather than medical practice alone, democratic resilience requires its own research infrastructure, practitioner training, evidence base, and policy framework. A scholar in this field might study domestic or global policies that support democratic norms, institutional legitimacy, and public trust in government, including administrative design and competence, state capacity, transparency, accountability mechanisms such as citizen oversight boards, election administration, franchise regulations (e.g., civil rights protections and imperialism), subnational administrative reform including redistricting policy, fair electoral representation, free speech protections, anti-corruption measures, and safeguards against politicization of public sector work. Democracy policy sits alongside established fields such as economic, social, education, health, and environmental policy, while drawing on questions of institutional design, quality, and resilience. It connects contemporary debates about abundance, democratic backsliding, and public interest technology by asking how public institutions can better meet public needs, reduce administrative burdens, protect core democratic norms, and build effective public goods. The successful candidate may work domestically, comparatively, or internationally across democracies worldwide, with a research agenda focused on policies that affect how institutions can generate more equitable representation and a more just distribution of resources,

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Meta used AI to target workers with medical conditions for layoffs, according to a new lawsuit. Twenty-six former Meta employees are suing, accusing the company of using AI that disproportionately targeted people with disabilities or workers who took medical leave in selecting people for layoffs.

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Meta used AI to target workers with medical conditions for layoffs, lawsuit claims

Twenty-six former employees of Meta Platforms have filed a lawsuit against the tech company, accusing it ‌of using AI-powered software that disproportionately targeted people with disabilities or who...

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/07/2026

“Palantir is not a company that is pro–public interest or welfare, or public health, or sort of traditional obligations of democratic institutions and states. Its vision of civic accountability is non-existent.”

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Palantir has a hand in NIH's most ambitious health initiative

The defense tech firm's work with public health data has largely flown under the radar.

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meaghan elizabeth @meaghanelizabeth.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

1000% this. The sociological implications of letting the topic of birthright citizenship percolate out there in various (far-right) social milieus has done serious, immeasurable harm. These SCOTUS cases do not exist in vacuums + their outcomes don't tell the entirety of their impact.

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meaghan elizabeth @meaghanelizabeth.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

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.

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404 Media @404media.co · 17/06/2026

“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.”

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ICE Appears to Be Buying Immigrants’ Tax Identifiers from a Data Broker

A $10 million procurement reviewed by 404 Media indicates ICE is buying records related to immigrants’ tax identifiers. “It looks for all the world like Trump is trying to skirt the law and a court or...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/06/2026

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.

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“Digital Colonialism”: U.S. Demands to Access Africans’ Data Raise Privacy, Sovereignty Concerns

The United States is requiring access to health data as part of lifesaving aid deals with African countries. The U.S. says the data will be aggregated and anonymized, but privacy experts fear the info...

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meaghan elizabeth @meaghanelizabeth.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

"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."

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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

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

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/05/2026

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.

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Governments should stop posting stuff only on x. I can't get sound to this video and I'm not making an account or downloading their dumb app. Is there an alternative source?
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you can append an x url with cancel as in xcancel.com/ to view links etc without an account.
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https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYqO-OpSJyd/?
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It's ridiculous that government bodies are still posting to a platform that at best requires you to make an account to view posts (at worst, all the many reasons X Is awtul).
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Can you please provide a summary detail for those of us that can't access X / sound audio?
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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

@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...

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Palantir Held a Hack Week to Add New Controls to Software Used by ICE

The hackathon, held to build user-auditing tools for Palantir customers, comes as the company struggles to address employee concerns over its relationship with ICE.

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WIRED @wired.com · 08/05/2026

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...

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The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle

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