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Hi Peter - do you have any specific thoughts for people posting about immigration scenarios here, to help keep themselves safe? Given that it was recently revealed that ICE is monitoring these comments.[0][1]

[0] https://www.404media.co/the-200-sites-an-ice-surveillance-co...

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VyAaJaWCutyJyMiTXuDH...

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Everyone has to weigh the pros and cons for themselves but I think that being well-informed is the best defense so to speak, that is, to know what one's rights are and what the law is, so I think these open forums play an important role.

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It is absolutely wild that people are posting about the ways that they have broken the letter of immigration law on here using their regular accounts and identifiable IP addresses.

Serious question, does anyone actually care about immigration law at this point? Because on the surface it doesn't seem to matter if you followed the law exactly or you completely ignored it if you're someone targeted by ICE. They seem to find their target and then work backwards on how to deport them. Is anyone who wouldn't normally be in the sights of an ICE agent getting targeted by some HN comment?

So how are Abrego Garcia and Mahmoud Khalil not deported?

When the cost of failure is high, and the cost of mitigation is low, I think it's reasonable to use throwaways and VPNs whenever you might comment something that might unknowingly increase your risk exposure. Admittedly, this is going to be a pain for forum anti abuse systems.

Yes, ICE put out RFIs in the last month for companies to provide AI and other analysis for mass lead generation.

https://sam.gov/opp/83693d33244e424191f58271c7faf72b/view

People who previously "flew under the radar" will now become investigation leads.

Why are they monitoring Zillow...

because securing housing is a big part of residing somewhere?

I'm more so wondering what public data on these sites is really useful for finding/building deportation cases. It looks to me they are wrapping a bunch of scrapers into a product and selling it as "intelligence tools".

Many companies share non-public data with law enforcement if asked nicely.

Zillow has rental management services - i.e. there are people who pay their rent though zillow.com

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