Who’s Stalking Whom? ICE Uses Social Media and Phone Surveillance System to Track Protesters

The article reports that U.S. ICE has adopted commercial surveillance platforms—PenLink/Cobwebs’ data broker–sourced device tracking, Tangles for social media scraping and watchlists, and Webloc for geolocation mapping—to monitor protesters and communities, enabling alerts and sentiment analysis without warrants and raising significant privacy and Fourth Amendment concerns highlighted by security experts.