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How hackers are fighting back against ICE surveillance tech

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Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Date Published: 2026-01-09

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Jessica Lyons

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This article highlights civil society and grassroots responses to ICE-aligned surveillance, focusing on Flock’s automated license plate readers and related countermeasures. It covers EFF and ACLU legal challenges, community tools mapping ALPR deployments (deflock.me, alpr.watch), apps for reporting ICE activity, and platform actions against such apps, while noting a YouTuber’s findings of misconfigured Flock cameras exposing admin interfaces and data. Overall, it frames surveillance self-defense and accountability efforts rather than providing a technical incident analysis.

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