DHS is Using Facial Recognition Software and Social Media to Track U.S. Citizens as Trump Implements the Surveillance State

From [HERE] The Zionist Trump Administration and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are now implementing their surveillance state in major cities around the nation, using ICE agents, many of whom were trained by the Israeli IDF, to implement it.

In Minneapolis, ICE agents have begun to use facial recognition software to identify U.S. Citizens who oppose the activities of ICE, as reported by the New York Times

On the morning of Jan. 10, Nicole Cleland was in her car trailing an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent through Richfield, Minn., her hometown.

Suddenly, the agent turned into a series of one-way streets and stopped, getting out of his white Dodge Ram, said Ms. Cleland, who volunteers with a local watchdog group that observes the activity of immigration officers. The agent then walked over to Ms. Cleland’s car and surprised her by addressing her as Nicole.

“He said he had facial recognition and that his body camera was on,” said Ms. Cleland, 56, who had not met the agent before.

Ms. Cleland was one of at least seven American citizens told by ICE agents this month that they were being recorded with facial recognition technology in and around Minneapolis, according to local activists and videos posted to social media, which were verified by The New York Times.

None had given consent for their faces to be recorded.

Facial recognition is just one technology tool that ICE has deployed in Minneapolis, where thousands of agents are conducting a crackdown.

The technologies are being used not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track citizens who have protested ICE’s presence, said three current and former officials of the Department of Homeland Security who were not authorized to discuss confidential matters.

ICE is using two facial recognition programs in Minnesota, they said, including one made by the tech company Clearview AI and a newer program, Mobile Fortify.

The agency is also using cellphone and social media tools to monitor people’s online activity and potentially hack into phones.

And agents are tapping into a database, built by the data analytics company Palantir, that combines government and commercial data to identify real-time locations for individuals they are pursuing, the current and former officials said. [MORE]