ICE Wants to Build a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

ICE wants to build a 24/7 social media surveillance team

United States immigration authorities are moving to dramatically expand their social media surveillance, with plans to hire nearly 30 contractors to sift through posts, photos, and messages—raw material to be transformed into intelligence for deportation raids and arrests. Federal contracting records reviewed by WIRED show that the agency is seeking private vendors to run a multiyear surveillance program out of two of its little-known targeting …

ICE seeks contractors to scour social media for leads

: Draft solicitation calls for nearly 30 contractors to mine social media and other open-source data

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

ICE Building Social Media Surveillance Team to Hunt People Down

ICE is gearing up to watch your every move.

ICE wants to build a 24/7 social media surveillance team – Monkey Viral

Together, these teams would operate as intelligence arms of ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations division. They will receive tips and incoming cases, research individuals online, and package the results into dossiers that could be used by field offices to plan arrests. The scope of information contractors are expected to collect is broad. Draft instructions specify […]

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team - Cybernoz - Cybersecurity News

United States immigration authorities are moving to dramatically expand their social media surveillance, with plans to hire nearly 30 contractors to sift through posts, photos, and messages—raw material to be transformed into intelligence for deportation arrests and raids. Federal contracting records reviewed by WIRED show the agency is seeking private vendors to run a multi-year surveillance program out of two of its little-known targeting cent…