We publish a major @citizenlab.ca report on Webloc, an ad-based mass surveillance system that monitors the movements and personal characteristics of hundreds of millions people globally based on data obtained from mobile apps and digital advertising. Customers include ICE, El Salvador, and Hungary.

Meta removes UK politics deepfake pages after BBC investigation The warning comes as work to spot and combat deepfakes ahead of the Senedd election is taking place.

Overseas 'content farms' creating political deepfakes uncovered

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“We are forced to stay despite the danger, when we defend our land, and we do so peacefully. None of us carries weapons. All of us carry peace and goodness and love.”

These were the words of Father Pierre al-Rahi one day before Israel killed him in Lebanon today on March 9.

If you are in New York for the CSW, don’t miss this event.

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

Greek court finds four guilty of prying on private data in wiretapping scandal A Greek court on Thursday concluded that the founder of surveillance firm Intellexa and three other people were guilty of breaching personal data in 2020-2021 and sentenced them to prison terms, in th...

“The court also referred the case back to prosecutors for further investigation of other crimes and more serious offences potentially committed, including #espionage.”

www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Our latest submission to the Committee on Enforced Disappearance and the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances is out now.
We highlight the role of digital technologies; spyware & location-tracking technologies in facilitating enforced disappearances of exiled dissidents

Submissions to the Committee on Enforced Disappearances: And the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances - The Citizen Lab Citizen Lab researchers have co-authored two submissions to the Committee on Enforced Disappearances and UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances.  One submission focuses on digital...

Sarah McKune, @nateschenkkan.bsky.social, an anonymous @citizenlab.ca researcher, @yaqiu.bsky.social & I have co-authored a UN submission on the enforced disappearance of migrants in the context of transnational repression:
citizenlab.ca/submissions-...

A fake ICE tip line reveals neighbors reporting neighbors A Nashville comedian’s deportation hotline, set up as a joke, has gone viral among viewers who say it shows the “banality of evil personified” in the U.S. immigration crackdown.

New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF

Open Letter to Tech Companies: Protect Your Users From Lawless DHS EFF is calling on technology companies like Meta and Google to stand up for their users by resisting DHS lawless administrative subpoenas for user data.

Even giant tech companies are made up of individual employees who mostly want to do the right thing. Resisting lawless ICE subpoenas is an easy place to start. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Egypt: Refugees in hiding amid crackdown involving arbitrary arrests and unlawful deportations In recent months, the Egyptian authorities renewed their campaign of arbitrarily detaining and unlawfully deporting refugees and asylum seekers solely on the basis of their irregular immigration statu...

Egypt: Refugees in hiding amid crackdown involving arbitrary arrests and unlawful deportations

www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

"Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts. The dept. has sent Google, Meta & other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials and tech workers said." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
“In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature’s release.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Epic OPSEC fail by Paragon exposing Graphite spyware capabilities.

Annotated pic from what we know.

Please help me figure out the other apps in in this pic that the spyware can access:

#WhatsApp
#Telegram
#Signal
?
#Line?
?
#Snapchat?
#TikTok?

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New 'ZeroDayRAT' Spyware Kit Enables Total Compromise of iOS, Android Devices ZeroDayRAT mobile spyware provides full remote access to Android and iOS with live camera feeds, key logging, bank and crypto theft and more.

ZeroDayRAT is a new commercial mobile #spyware toolkit – first observed on 2 February – that enables full remote access to Android and iOS devices, with features including live camera feeds, key logging, bank and crypto theft and more.

www.securityweek.com/new-zerodayr...

Google Handed Student Journalist’s Bank and Credit Card Numbers to ICE Amandla Thomas-Johnson didn't know how much information ICE requested in a subpoena now. Google never gave him a chance to fight it.

GOOGLE HANDED STUDENT JOURNALIST’S BANK AND CREDIT CARD NUMBERS TO ICE

theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...

She thought ICE agents were taking her to school. The 10-year-old ended up 1,200 miles away at a detention facility | CNN As a mother drove her 10-year-old girl to the bus stop, they were intercepted by federal agents. The fourth-grader thought the officers were going to take her to school. Instead, she was put on a plan...

She thought ICE agents were taking her to school. The 10-year-old ended up 1,200 miles away at a detention facility

www.cnn.com/2026/02/06/u...

“This sure looks like a violation of the foreign emoluments clause, and more to the point, it looks like a bribe.”

"A five-alarm fire about the federal government being for sale.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

UK-based pair behind messaging app accused of giving data to Iranian regime Exclusive: Branch of Iranian software company TSIT, which makes Gap Messenger, is registered in Sussex

UK-based pair behind messaging app accused of giving data to Iranian regime

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Minneapolis latest: Trump faces next challenge as Democrats block huge spending bill in immigration fight The US Senate has blocked a wide-ranging spending bill over Donald Trump's immigration crackdown in Minnesota, bringing swathes of the government close to a shutdown. Follow the latest.

“I think there are very few people in this country that are safe,” said CVT's Scott Roehm on @skynewsrss.bsky.social about the militarized immigration enforcement in Minnesota & across the United States. He notes the need to completely dismantle ICE in its form.
news.sky.com/story/minnea...

Center for Victims of Torture shares mental health impacts amid surge of immigration enforcement operations Amid intensified immigration enforcement and the deadly ICE shooting in Minneapolis, the Center for Victims of Torture says its clients struggle psychologically.

“Our clients are telling us this is the very thing that they fled in their home countries & they’re starting to see it play out in front of them,” Alison Beckman, Lab & @cvt.org, tells @kare11.bsky.social.
See the impacts clients & Minnesotans are facing.
www.kare11.com/article/news...

Exclusion by Design: Digital Identification and the Hostile Environment for Migrants The debate over digital ID systems has recently intensified in the UK, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer framing digital IDs as a mechanism to curb ‘illegal working’.

EXCLUSION BY DESIGN

The report explores how errors in the Home Office evisa system are leading to significant stress, anxiety, and fatigue among migrants in the UK. It also highlights the impact and lack of support for effected people.
www.openrightsgroup.org/publications...

How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.

People are already in the streets after an ICE agent shot a woman in her vehicle in Minneapolis today. Here are some @wired.com tips for protecting yourself from your government. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Boys at her school shared AI-generated, nude images of her. She was the one expelled A 13-year-old girl at a Louisiana middle school got into a fight with classmates who were sharing AI-generated nude images of her

“Boys at her school shared AI-generated, nude images of her. After a fight, she was the one expelled.”
Despite seeking help, the whole educational system has failed her. And eventually, when she reacted, her pain became visible, yet she was the one to be punished.

abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge Degrading pictures being posted on Elon Musk’s site despite the platform pledging to suspend people who generate them

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge.

The rise of the Emirati dis-influencers and why we all should be worried Open-source investigation has revealed UAE's sophisticated pseudo-media ecosystem, where right-wing and Israeli-aligned commentators masquerade as moderate Arab voices

The rise of the Emirati dis-influencers and why we all should be worried
@marcowenjones.bsky.social

www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/rise...

How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin Meet the guy who taught US intelligence agencies how to make the most of the ad tech ecosystem, "the largest information-gathering enterprise ever conceived by man."

www.wired.com/story/how-pe...

“China promotes Xinjiang as a tourist paradise–and a safe place to which Uyghurs should return. Its authorities deny that any human-rights abuses have ever occurred in the province.”

“Now Uyghurs who fled are losing protections as China pressures other countries to hand them over, and as America and Europe have grown more hostile towards refugees.”