{"id":62285,"date":"2025-11-10T06:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T11:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62285"},"modified":"2025-11-10T11:21:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:21:45","slug":"npr-immigration-agents-have-new-technology-to-identify-and-track-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62285","title":{"rendered":"NPR: Immigration agents have new technology to identify and track people"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NPR: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/11\/08\/nx-s1-5585691\/ice-facial-recognition-immigration-tracking-spyware\">Immigration agents have new technology to identify and track people<\/a> by Jude Joffe-Block (&#8220;Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is acquiring powerful new surveillance tools to identify and monitor people. They include apps that let federal agents point a cell phone at someone&#8217;s face to potentially identify them and determine their immigration status in the field, and another that can scan irises. Newly licensed software can give &#8216;access to vast amounts of location-based data,&#8217; according to an archive of the website of the company that developed it, and ICE recently revived a previously frozen contract with a company that makes spyware that can hack into cell phones. The federal agency is also ramping up its social media surveillance, with new AI-driven software contracts, and is considering hiring 24\/7 teams of contractors assigned to scouring various databases and platforms like Facebook and TikTok and creating dossiers on users.&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR: Immigration agents have new technology to identify and track people by Jude Joffe-Block (&#8220;Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is acquiring powerful new surveillance tools to identify and monitor people. They include apps that let federal agents point a cell &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62285\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facial-recognition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62286,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62285\/revisions\/62286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}