Kat Lonsdorf
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 25 Aug
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that identified an ICE agent who was operating in California.
It identified this agent all through publicly available information, like a photo taken in public of the ICE agent wearing his uniform with a name tag on it, stuff like that.
And it was a day or two later that he got one of these emails from Meta saying that law enforcement had requested his information.
And he had a couple email exchanges back and forth with Meta
finally got a redacted copy of the subpoena that was sent from DHS.
The reason given was, quote, officer safety or doxing, which, you know, Sherman Austin said was surprising to him.
And he did take it to court and DHS did withdraw that subpoena.
I mean, we honestly don't know.
But just because there aren't as many federal agents on the ground doesn't mean that people aren't still being tracked.
Right.
Again, we don't know if there's a database of some kind being compiled, even though DHS says there isn't.
But we also know that surveillance is happening online like we just talked about.
So it really doesn't matter if there are agents physically present somewhere or not.
Yeah.
And one thing I'll just add to that is that we have a constitutional right to free speech.
And baked into that right is the ability to criticize the government anonymously.
And all of the surveillance that we've been talking about is making that anonymity increasingly difficult to preserve.
Yeah, thank you.
Yeah, thanks for having us.
ICE's budget has skyrocketed during President Trump's second term, and the administration is taking the unprecedented step of aggregating Americans' personal data and making it more accessible to the agency.
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