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How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are (www.nytimes.com)
submitted 6 days ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Agents use facial recognition, social media monitoring and other tech tools not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track protesters, current and former officials said.

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[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 9 points 6 days ago

As usual, the Trump admin is using tools that have been available to the feds for years but they use them so ineptly that it has become obvious that they exist. I guess that is better than competent administrations doing to the same thing for less trivial and obvious shit.