ICE acknowledges it is using powerful spyware

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68 points·dnemmers··8 comments

If only the DEA had these tools, illegal Fentanyl importation might have actually been stopped.

Instead, ICE and HSI are using the tools against domestic Americans while pretending to protect us from Fentanyl.

The parallels between what happened in the USSR, Third Reich aren’t overblown. They are rhyming.

Hasn’t the us declared to the entire world they want to mass surveillance all their citizens when they banned anthropic?

Not necessarily - that was misdirection.

Domestic surveillance was an example of a limitation that Anthropic wanted to put on their software. But in order to enforce that limitation, Anthropic would both need to monitor DoD usage of their tools and have a kill switch. Both of these were the real sticking point and the reason why the Trump Admin was willing to make an example of Anthropic.

no matter how powerful your spyware is ICE , it wont run on my nokia 1100

.. maybe not, but that nokia 1100 with tons of backdoors isn't getting any updates any time soon, either ..

it runs though on the phones of everyone who have you in contacts and in conversation history, so they are only missing one piece of puzzle in the middle

All your calls and texts are intercepted anyway, so what do you think you're hiding?

Thanks Obama!

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