The Mexican Navy announced on Thursday that it had seized a semi-submersible vessel carrying nearly four tons of cocaine. The seizure of 179 packages of the drug is the latest result in an effort to curb maritime trafficking of illicit… Read More "‘Narco-Submarine’ Carrying 4 Tons of Cocaine Captured by Mexico’s Navy"
Two agents involved in the shooting deaths of US citizens in Minneapolis are reportedly part of highly militarized DHS units whose extreme tactics are generally reserved for war zones. Source link Read More "The Paramilitary ICE and CBP Units at the Center of Minnesota's Killings"
On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security published new details about Mobile Fortify, the face recognition app that federal immigration agents use to identify people in the field, undocumented immigrants and US citizens alike. The details, including the company behind… Read More "Here’s the Company That Sold DHS ICE’s Notorious Face Recognition App"
The widespread protests in Iran have exposed both Tehran’s brutal tactics in the streets, where state authorities have killed thousands of demonstrators since early January, and extreme measures to block access to the global internet. As it has done repeatedly… Read More "Ring Kills Flock Safety Deal After Super Bowl Ad Uproar"
A federal judge on Monday declined to immediately curb the federal operation that has put armed agents on the streets of Minneapolis and St. Paul, but ordered the government to file a new briefing by Wednesday evening answering a central… Read More "Judge Delays Minnesota ICE Decision While Weighing Whether State Is Being Illegally Punished"
United States Customs and Border Protection plans to spend $225,000 for a year of access to Clearview AI, a face recognition tool that compares photos against billions of images scraped from the internet. The deal extends access to Clearview tools… Read More "CBP Signs Clearview AI Deal to Use Face Recognition for ‘Tactical Targeting’"
For half a century, the world’s nuclear powers relied on an intricate and complex series of treaties that slowly and steadily reduced the number of nuclear weapons on the planet. Those treaties are gone now, and it doesn’t appear that… Read More "AI Is Here to Replace Nuclear Treaties. Scared Yet?"
