Surveilled and Sold: Privacy and Sanctuary in Portland How effective are Portland’s sanctuary city policies when ICE can track and surveil immigrant communities with ease?

How effective are Portland’s sanctuary city policies when ICE can track and surveil immigrant communities with ease? @fi2w.org reports - www.investigatewest.org/surveilled-a...

Una nueva ley de privacidad de datos busca proteger a todos en Montana sin importar su estatus — palabra. ¿Puede Oregón seguir el ejemplo de Montana y aprobar una legislación similar?

And part 2!

Una nueva ley de privacidad de datos busca proteger a todos en Montana sin importar su estatus: www.palabranahj.org/archive/una-...

Vigilado y Vendido: Privacidad y santuario en Portland — palabra. ¿Qué tan efectivas son las políticas de ciudad santuario de Portland cuando el ICE puede rastrear y vigilar a las comunidades inmigrantes con total facilidad?

Read part 1 of Surveilled and Sold published by our partner newsroom @palabranahj.bsky.social in Spanish.

Vigilado y Vendido: Privacidad y santuario en Portland: www.palabranahj.org/archive/vigi...

Una nueva ley de privacidad de datos busca proteger a todos en Montana sin importar su estatus — palabra. ¿Puede Oregón seguir el ejemplo de Montana y aprobar una legislación similar?

Y en español también:

www.palabranahj.org/archive/una-...

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Surveilled and Sold - Feet in 2 Worlds Surveilled and Sold is an investigative series about how surveillance technologies track immigrants in an era of mass deportation — and the ways private companies and the U.S. government buy, sell, an...

Surveilled and Sold is an investigative series about how surveillance technologies track immigrants in an era of mass deportation — and the ways corporations and the U.S. government buy, sell, and exchange our personal data.

This story is the third in our new series, Surveilled and Sold.

Reporting by Narimes Parakul
Edited by @quincetessence.bsky.social and @miaestellewarren.bsky.social
Illustration by Dabin Han
Fact-check by Julie Schwietert Collazo

“Because these systems sit at the intersection of work, home, and immigration enforcement, any leak or data-sharing deal doesn’t just threaten [domestic workers’] privacy; it can directly endanger their job, housing, and ability to stay in the country.”

No Privacy in Private: Immigrant Domestic Workers Are Being Recorded On the Job - Feet in 2 Worlds Domestic workers like nannies, house cleaners, and caregivers are increasingly being surveilled by their employers. How are immigrant workers particularly vulnerable to these surveillance technologies...

“Inside employers’ homes, immigrant domestic workers often face a level of surveillance most people would never tolerate at work,” says Wilneida Negrón, a technologist and policy strategist.

Hidden nanny cams, smart doorbells, baby monitors, voice-activated recording devices, and Ring cameras:

Our latest story from Surveilled and Sold looks at a Montana data privacy law — and how it could impact surveillance of immigrant communities.

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Articulate for yourself the intention for your reporting. What value are you bringing to your readers and listeners? What role do you have in informing communities, amplifying their experiences, and connecting them?

Protect your journalism.

“Anyone out there to document is committing an act of journalism,” says @adamrose.bsky.social. No matter the size and reputation of the newsroom one works with (if any), journalists have a right to be present and document what’s happening.

Protect your journalists (including you).

Reporting on ICE and what immigrants are going through right now is a difficult and increasingly dangerous job. Just as you have a responsibility to protect your sources, you absolutely have a responsibility to protect yourselves and those you work with.

Protect your subjects.

Covering stories of ICE and speaking with immigrants means that you’re potentially putting your sources at risk — especially if those sources are not citizens. We are living in a time when active harm can come swiftly to sources if you are not careful.

There’s stuff to cover other than the action.

There’s still plenty of reporting to be done other than live breaking coverage. Follow up in the days, weeks, months after to see what has happened since. How are communities responding? How are people trying to solve problems related to ICE?

Whose story is it? Immigrants as subjects, not objects.

When reporting, ask yourself: who has agency in your story? To use a grammatical framework, I try to think of who is the subject, and who is the object? That is, who is the one doing the action, vs. who’s having action done to them?

Go where you understand, and then a little further.

Using your familiarity as an asset, you can choose to cover what you know best. This is an opportunity for you to focus locally on specific neighborhoods, communities, and people who are not getting covered otherwise.

Who tells the story?

Stories of immigration policy and enforcement inherently impact immigrants. Are immigrants getting the chance to report on what’s happening to their communities? Are they getting to write the stories, record the interviews, ask questions, and share what’s going on?

Who tells the story? And whose story is it? Values and Practices when Reporting on ICE - Feet in 2 Worlds Fi2W Managing Editor Quincy Surasmith shares ideas and strategies for reporting on immigration and ICE — what's working, what isn't, and how to better meet this moment as producers. Quincy brings in ...

Fi2W Managing Editor @quincetessence.bsky.social shares ideas and strategies for reporting on immigration and ICE — what’s working, what isn’t, and how to better meet this moment as producers.

This piece was originally written for and funded by @transom.bsky.social.

Some key ideas:

Surveilled and Sold - Feet in 2 Worlds Surveilled and Sold is an investigative series about how surveillance technologies track immigrants in an era of mass deportation — and the ways private companies and the U.S. government buy, sell, an...

Surveilled and Sold is an investigative series from @fi2w.org about how surveillance technologies track immigrants in an era of mass deportation — and the ways corporations and the U.S. government buy, sell, and exchange our personal data.

This story is the second in our new series, Surveilled and Sold.

Reporting by Narimes Parakul
Edited by @quincetessence.bsky.social and @miaestellewarren.bsky.social
Photos by @extracelestial.bsky.social and Sarah Mosquera
Illustration by Dabin Han
Fact-check by Julie Schwietert Collazo

In Montana, A New Data Privacy Law Aims to Protect Everyone — Regardless of Status - Feet in 2 Worlds Immigrants and January 6th insurrectionists may not appear to share much in common — except what they stand to gain from a new data privacy law in Montana. What protections does this law create, and c...

“It's the same as if someone walked into your house and decided that they were going to search your house without a search warrant.”

Weak data privacy regulation threatens Fourth Amendment rights. How Montana became the first state in the country to close out the data broker loophole:

The second story in our @fi2w.org series Surveilled and Sold:

A law in Montana intended to protect the privacy of January 6th insurrectionists also extends those same protections to immigrants in the state.

Is this data privacy law something that other states can learn from?

The state of Montana has deeply rooted libertarian values — and some of the best data privacy protections in the country. A new story from @fi2w.org digs into this.

Surveilled and Sold - Feet in 2 Worlds Surveilled and Sold is an investigative series about how surveillance technologies track immigrants in an era of mass deportation — and the ways private companies and the U.S. government buy, sell, an...

Surveilled and Sold is an investigative series about how surveillance technologies track immigrants in an era of mass deportation — and the ways corporations and the U.S. government buy, sell, and exchange our personal data.

This story is the second in our new series, Surveilled and Sold.

Reporting by Narimes Parakul
Edited by @quincetessence.bsky.social and @miaestellewarren.bsky.social
Photos by @extracelestial.bsky.social and Sarah Mosquera
Illustration by Dabin Han
Fact-check by Julie Schwietert Collazo

In Montana, A New Data Privacy Law Aims to Protect Everyone — Regardless of Status - Feet in 2 Worlds Immigrants and January 6th insurrectionists may not appear to share much in common — except what they stand to gain from a new data privacy law in Montana. What protections does this law create, and c...

Immigrants and January 6th insurrectionists may not appear to have much in common — except what they stand to gain from a new data privacy law in Montana.

Why data protection could be a bipartisan issue — and what both sides of the aisle could do to protect their constituents:

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