Spencer Reynolds

For years, local governments & police departments have cooperated with federal agencies through the Joint Terrorism Task Forces. Now, through Trump's new NPSM-7 directive, these task forces will focus on “leftist” groups.

History shows us what happens when our movements are targeted by the feds.

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Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’ The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

Google has determined that ICE agents are a vulnerable group and has used this designation as pretext to delete an app that helped communities determine where ICE raids were happening

www.404media.co/google-calls...

Cobwebs Spy Software Locks Onto Protesters: Israeli Social Media Mining Contract with Homeland Security Revealed - UNICORN RIOT An Israeli spy software tech firm licenses web surveillance tools to law enforcement and intelligence agencies. The software contract shows new details about this sensitive technology DHS has used to ...

unicornriot.ninja/2024/cobwebs...

In 2020, to build dossiers on racial justice demonstrators in Portland, Oregon, DHS's intelligence office also used Penlink (then called Cobwebs) to identify connections between people and build out surveillance. Article in the next post.

It's a powerful tool often used for illicit purposes.

Art from UAW newspaper that says, "Quit trying to carry the ball alone. Join The International Union, United Automobile Workers of America." Shows drawing of footballs players carrying the ball or tackling.

🏈"Quit trying to carry the ball alone."🏈
As we enter the heart of football season, a call to unionize from the newspaper of the @uaw.org, 1937. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

ICE tactics inflame tensions in New York, Chicago and other cities Some Hispanic residents said they were stopped solely because of their appearance.

“The incidents on Thursday and Friday highlight the growing tensions in major U.S. cities over President Donald Trump's aggressive immigration crackdown.”

Trump's guidance taps into common beliefs as signs of terrorism.

This isn't new. FBI, DHS, & intel agencies have long used bogus methods reliant on common things like isolation, having debt, paying off debt (!), religion, etc. to identify impending violence.

Unproven yet often harmful to rights.

DHS Has Been Collecting US Citizens’ DNA for Years Newly released data shows Customs and Border Protection funneled the DNA of nearly 2,000 US citizens—some as young as 14—into an FBI crime database, raising alarms about oversight and legality.

NEW: Newly released data shows CBP has funneled the DNA data of some 2,000 US citizens, including that of children, into the FBI's CODIS database, which is intended for criminal investigations. @dell.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/dhs-ha...

And to be clear, this “zip tying” is serious restraint with cuffs. These are peaceful public officials and citizens being detained.

The agents doing the zip tying appear to be from the DHS Federal Protective Service.

I wrote this summer in TIME how the agency is integral to DHS’s efforts to crackdown on dissent:

time.com/7307963/trum...

NEW: Internal report reveals DHS intelligence portal was accidentally opened to tens of thousands of users for months, exposing sensitive intel about Americans. @brennancenter.org obtained the docs. @wired.com has the story. 🧵

www.wired.com/story/a-dhs-...

At 26 Federal Plaza today, ICE agents detained a man after his immigration hearing, leaving behind his wife and children. His wife broke down outside the courthouse with her young child. Their 7-year-old will return from school to find her father gone.

A DHS Data Hub Exposed Sensitive Intel to Thousands of Unauthorized Users A misconfigured platform used by the Department of Homeland Security left national security information—including some related to the surveillance of Americans—accessible to thousands of people.

A misconfigured platform used by the Department of Homeland Security left national security information—including some related to the surveillance of Americans—accessible to thousands of people. www.wired.com/story/a-dhs-...

YouTube video by The Center for Media and Democracy Freedoms Under Attack: DHS Violence Against Journalists, Observers, and Protesters

If DHS can violently attack journalists and citizen observers without any consequences, none of us are safe anywhere in the country.
#protest #LAProtests #PressFreedom #ProtectJournalists

A DHS Data Hub Exposed Sensitive Intel to Thousands of Unauthorized Users A misconfigured platform used by the Department of Homeland Security left national security information—including some related to the surveillance of Americans—accessible to thousands of people.

NEW: A FOIA doc obtained by the @brennancenter.org shows a misconfigured DHS platform left sensitive natsec intel—including info about surveillance of Americans—accessible to thousands of unauthorized users. @agreenberg.bsky.social has the scoop. (No paywall bc FOIA) www.wired.com/story/a-dhs-...

All this follows a long history of the intel office’s abusive targeting, poor oversight, and at times incompetence. The government collects and shares massive amounts of data about us. It should at a minimum be able to safeguard it.

This incident raises questions about how seriously DHS’s intel shop takes information security. Thousands and thousands of users gained access to information they were never supposed to have. This should raise alarm bells for agencies that trust the platform with their info.

DHS’s Newest Target: Atlanta “Cop City” Activists Homeland security organizations are injecting federal spy agencies into local political matters, often without meaningful restrictions.

DHS uses this portal to inject questionable intelligence about protestors into national police circles. Some of that was accessed here, likely including documents I’ve written about that illustrate abuses. This breach exposed them even further.

www.justsecurity.org/86876/dhss-n...

But an access control error opened it up to everyone in the network for two months. Hundreds of documents were improperly accessed, likely thousands more exposed. They include sensitive intelligence and law enforcement info.

DHS runs a “homeland security information network,” allowing federal, state, local, private, and foreign entities to share information with tens of thousands of users. There the Office of Intelligence & Analysis maintains an intel sharing portal. It’s supposed to be locked down…

NEW: Internal report reveals DHS intelligence portal was accidentally opened to tens of thousands of users for months, exposing sensitive intel about Americans. @brennancenter.org obtained the docs. @wired.com has the story. 🧵

www.wired.com/story/a-dhs-...

A DHS Data Hub Exposed Sensitive Intel to Thousands of Unauthorized Users A misconfigured platform used by the Department of Homeland Security left national security information—including some related to the surveillance of Americans—accessible to thousands of people.

A DHS data-sharing platform used for sharing restricted intel among government agencies, law enforcement and fusion centers was misconfigured to allow access to "everyone" including tens of thousands of unauthorized government staff, contractors and foreign nationals. www.wired.com/story/a-dhs-...

I grew this perfect sugar pumpkin that is now for dinner. 🌱#gardening

It’s stunning that even in a federal building ICE agents refuse to wear uniforms and insignia. They’re on their own turf! Building security let them in and everyone knows they’re ICE! This is about intimidation.

After her hearing at 26 Federal Plaza, a woman was detained and escorted toward the stairwell. Her husband, confused and in shock, was guided toward the exit. Minutes later, he broke down in the elevator. They entered together, but he left alone. This happens here daily. #ICE

Big ones, small ones, some as big as your head...

Giant puffball!
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US Justice Dept considers handing over voter roll data for criminal probes, documents show The U.S. Justice Department is in talks with Homeland Security Investigations about transferring the sensitive voter roll data it has collected from states for use in criminal and immigration-related investigations, according to government documents seen by Reuters.

Remember when DOJ’s civil rights division demanded voter rolls from states? Well now they want to turn them over to ICE to hunt down mythical noncitizen voters and prop up lies about systemic fraudulent voting:

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech

After years of activist pressure, lawsuits, and bad press Ring made much needed reforms. Now, they’re pivoting back to mass police surveillance as a business model. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...