Google Has Chosen a Side in the Trump Administration's Mass Deportation [and Mass Surveillance] Effort

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Google is hosting a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officials.

ICE-spotting app developers tell 404 Media the decision to host CBP’s new app, and Google’s description of ICE officials as a vulnerable group in need of protection, shows that Google has made a choice on which side to support during the Trump administration’s violent mass deportation effort.

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This NPR article gives more background on the extent to which invasive surveillance methods (widespread warrantless facial scans, iris scans, mass surveillance of social media, mass collection of biometric data, etc) are being quietly used by ICE and DHS without oversight or transparency, and without requiring any kind of warrant or probable cause.

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