Face Scans Flood Police, Spying Laws Unravel
June 11, 2026
The Trump administration’s push to distribute unproven facial recognition systems to thousands of local officers and ICE agents, alongside the nomination of an unvetted intelligence chief, is stripping away domestic surveillance oversight. As WhatsApp users fall victim to NSO Group phishing, Florida police rely on flawed biometric matches for wrongful arrests, and masked imposters exploit agency branding, the collapse of legislative guardrails is turning routine policing into a high-stakes automated gamble. This unchecked rollout of biometric identification tools, compounded by institutional corruption and corporate hacking, demonstrates how weakened vetting directly accelerates algorithmic harm on the ground.
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ICE Wants To Hand Out Its Unproven Facial Recognition Tech To Thousands Of Cops
The Trump administration has thrown billions at purging non-white people from this country. Most of that has ended up in the hands of ICE, which has — in turn — thrown hundreds of millions at a number of private companies offering bespoke and/or off-the-shelf surveillance solutions. The slide down t…
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Momentum Builds to Rein In Domestic Spying Law — Whether or Not Bill Pulte Survives as Intel Chief
“I have been doing this a while,” Sen. Ron Wyden told The Intercept. “And I’ve never had this kind of bipartisan support.” The post Momentum Builds to Rein In Domestic Spying Law — Whether or Not Bill Pulte Survives as Intel Chief appeared first on The Intercept.
- structural power
- geopolitics
- OSINT methodology
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NSO Group Hacking WhatsApp Despite Court Order
WhatsApp has caught the NSO Group phishing its users, in violation of a court order.
- Cybersecurity
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Trump Risks Key Surveillance Authority Over ‘Unqualified’ Spy-Chief Pick
US lawmakers are alarmed that Bill Pulte, a housing official with no intelligence experience, is poised to take charge of one of the government's most powerful surveillance tools.
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Wrongful Arrest Exposes Failures in One of the Oldest Police Face-Recognition Tools in the US
The ACLU is suing two Florida police departments over the arrest of a Fort Myers man in a child-abduction case, saying officers treated a flawed face recognition match as a near-certain ID.
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LAPD Apparently Has Its Own Internal Cop Gang Problem
The more things change, the more they remain the same. That could be said of anywhere in this country, now that the Trump administration is trying to turn the clock back to 1940, if not 1840. But it’s especially true in Los Angeles, where law enforcement agencies have apparently learned nothing, des…
- media and technology
- AI governance
- structural power
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ICE’s Reliance On Masked Thugs Is Predictably Resulting In Masked Thugs Claiming They’re ICE Officers
ICE never needed officers to disguise themselves with masks and strip themselves of identification before Trump took office for the second time. What ICE is doing now isn’t what ICE was doing during Trump’s first term, even though it’s the same hateful bigot sitting behind the Resolute Desk he think…