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The US is turning into a mass techno-surveillance state
President Trump and his former star advisor, Elon Musk, have accelerated the deployment of a vast technological infrastructure that monitors the lives of millions of people. The system is focusing on immigrants — for now
The foundations for the current state of techno-surveillance were laid over decades, with bipartisan support for policies that normalized invasive practices in law enforcement, the military, and border control,” says the Bahraini civil rights activist Esra’a Al Shafei, who has been studying this issue for years, in a conversation with EL PAÍS. “Using social media surveillance to intimidate, harass, alienate, deport, imprison, or arrest is antithetical to many of the principles on which democracy is founded,” warned Paromita Shah, executive director of the U.S. immigrant advocacy NGO Just Futures Law. In recent months, the DHS has acquired several licenses for software used to spy on cell phones from Cellebrite, Paragon Solutions, Venntel, and NSO Group, the developers of the spyware Pegasus, according to data collected by Just Futures Law.
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