black man, considering white face

@donsays.blacksky.app

ruth wilson gilmore girl & saidiya hartman hartthrob. i organize tenants and co-operatives. i got shadowbanned from twitter for calling elon musk "aparthied clyde" too many times.

ICE agents engaged in a high speed chase forced a car containing a mother and child into a ditch with their reckless driving, then handcuffed a U.S. citizen. It's business as usual for the agency in South Texas:

ICE Never Stopped Chasing People in Cars in the Rio Grande Valley

Immigration agents sped after a vehicle through a residential neighborhood on the same day of the agency’s traffic stop pause, reportedly endangering a mother and son—before pulling a gun on and…

texasobserver.org

NEW: ICE is collecting unprecedented quantities of DNA from detainees, including children. Those samples sit, indefinitely, in an FBI database built for criminal investigations. "People are very confused about why their DNA is being tested. I do not think they’re being told what the purpose is."

ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children

Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.

wired.com

This ex-Flock employee said he felt like he was living a "Kim Possible" or "Hannah Montana" life. As an immigrant whose father was deported, he organized against ICE when they descended on his city. Then, he'd go to work trying to sell Flock cameras to cities. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKYY...

New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

wapo.st

“The central challenge in this project was how to introduce this novel technology to the parenting market while transcending the negative connotations of ‘surveillance.’” —A branding consultancy used by Nanit as noted on its website Truly terrifying! @hypervisible.blacksky.app @knibbs.bsky.social

Nanit and Other Baby-Tracking Start-Ups Eye Collecting Even More Data (Gift Article)

Nanit and other start-ups want to track your children through the night — and soon, for much longer than that.

nytimes.com