Ring doorbell cameras announced a partnership with Flock, which in turn has already been sharing information with ICE.

“Law enforcement agencies using Flock software can now issue Ring footage requests specifying location, timeframe, and case details, a move first reported by TechCrunch.”

https://hrnews1.substack.com/p/ring-cameras-join-flock-and-amazon

Mostly it seems like they’re buying up data from “data brokers”, where you fb, insta, tiktok, google, etc… data is just… straight up sold. You just buy it. They don’t do any of the scraping themselves.

Beyond that there are services which collate billions of MAC addresses via cell towers, which is sometimes pseudo anonymized, sometimes not so much. Again, these are just API’s you can pay for access to. Granted, they are in the range of 100k+ per month, but its just there. You can just buy it.

Companies like palantir use these to build profiles, and then market tools and services, dashboards, searches, viewers, etc…

So like, this isnt a spy agency. Its a CHUD agency. These guys are just dickless meatheads who’se cholesterol and T is so jacked they can’t mantain an erection from eating nothing but atlas deer meat or whatever other shit the JRE is pedaling that week: ICE aren’t technologists.

They’re just vacuuming up data that people are providing, albeit largely unknowingly, willingly. People don’t think of FB posts as PII. They don’t realize their position is being tracked and monitored in real time.

I posted this comment in the original thread, but I’m also going to post it here for visibility for people interested in this.

404 Media and the EFF have been covering this pretty extensively.

404 just published a zine about ICE Surveillance, which can be found here printable in both English and Spanish.

404 also published the user manual for ICE’s database app, ELITE, which lets them find people to abduct which can be found here and a detailed article talking about it can be read here

In another article 404 talks about ICE’s two other tools, Tangles and Webloc, which ICE uses to track the locations of cellphones and determine the place of work or residence of the owner without a warrant. This can be used for example to track people who show up to protests and find out who they are and where they live. Read here

There’s also an article on how Flock cameras work if your interested, found here on 404

The Electronic Frontier Foundation put out a tool last year, Rayhunter, which aims to detect and record the use of cell-site simulators, or Stingrays, aka IMSI catchers. CSS’s mimic cell towers to spy on cell phones. The goal of the tool is to record and document the usage of these devices and report it to groups like the EFF.

The EFF also has a whole Field Guide to Police Surveillance which covers street-level surveillance tech law enforcement uses, and how they work.

On a side note: WIRED put out an article on How to Film ICE.

And The Verge did a review of the Best Gas Masks to buy.