This sounds like a police state to me.

[berg80]

How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are​

On the morning of Jan. 10, Nicole Cleland was in her car trailing an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent through Richfield, Minn., her hometown.

Suddenly, the agent turned into a series of one-way streets and stopped, getting out of his white Dodge Ram, said Ms. Cleland, who volunteers with a local watchdog group that observes the activity of immigration officers. The agent then walked over to Ms. Cleland’s car and surprised her by addressing her as Nicole.

“He said he had facial recognition and that his body camera was on,” said Ms. Cleland, 56, who had not met the agent before.

Ms. Cleland was one of at least seven American citizens told by ICE agents this month that they were being recorded with facial recognition technology in and around Minneapolis, according to local activists and videos posted to social media, which were verified by The New York Times. None had given consent for their faces to be recorded.

Facial recognition is just one technology tool that ICE has deployed in Minneapolis, where thousands of agents are conducting a crackdown. The technologies are being used not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track citizens who have protested ICE’s presence, said three current and former officials of the Department of Homeland Security who were not authorized to discuss confidential matters.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/technology/tech-ice-facial-recognition-palantir.html

As much as it may excite trump fans to know that technology is being used to create a data base to track protesters, it's not what we do here. Not here. At least it wasn't until the means authoritarian governments use to control and intimidate the populace were rolled out in MN.

The regime has already tried to normalize the military and or masked agents of the government patrolling the streets of selected (meaning blue) US cities. They are violating court orders, using excessive force, and occasionally killing people. Now they are surveilling them as well.

I gotta ask, are you OK with this?

 

[Eman623]

How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are​

On the morning of Jan. 10, Nicole Cleland was in her car trailing an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent through Richfield, Minn., her hometown.

Suddenly, the agent turned into a series of one-way streets and stopped, getting out of his white Dodge Ram, said Ms. Cleland, who volunteers with a local watchdog group that observes the activity of immigration officers. The agent then walked over to Ms. Cleland’s car and surprised her by addressing her as Nicole.

“He said he had facial recognition and that his body camera was on,” said Ms. Cleland, 56, who had not met the agent before.

Ms. Cleland was one of at least seven American citizens told by ICE agents this month that they were being recorded with facial recognition technology in and around Minneapolis, according to local activists and videos posted to social media, which were verified by The New York Times. None had given consent for their faces to be recorded.

Facial recognition is just one technology tool that ICE has deployed in Minneapolis, where thousands of agents are conducting a crackdown. The technologies are being used not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track citizens who have protested ICE’s presence, said three current and former officials of the Department of Homeland Security who were not authorized to discuss confidential matters.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/technology/tech-ice-facial-recognition-palantir.html

As much as it may excite trump fans to know that technology is being used to create a data base to track protesters, it's not what we do here. Not here. At least it wasn't until the means authoritarian governments use to control and intimidate the populace were rolled out in MN.

The regime has already tried to normalize the military and or masked agents of the government patrolling the streets of selected (meaning blue) US cities. They are violating court orders, using excessive force, and occasionally killing people. Now they are surveilling them as well.

I gotta ask, are you OK with this?

You don't need to give consent to be recorded in public. If you leave your home and walk down the street, I can video you all day long.

And if you are actively tailing LEOs, then you probably belong in a database.

 

[Lisa558]

How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are​

On the morning of Jan. 10, Nicole Cleland was in her car trailing an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent through Richfield, Minn., her hometown.

Suddenly, the agent turned into a series of one-way streets and stopped, getting out of his white Dodge Ram, said Ms. Cleland, who volunteers with a local watchdog group that observes the activity of immigration officers. The agent then walked over to Ms. Cleland’s car and surprised her by addressing her as Nicole.

“He said he had facial recognition and that his body camera was on,” said Ms. Cleland, 56, who had not met the agent before.

Ms. Cleland was one of at least seven American citizens told by ICE agents this month that they were being recorded with facial recognition technology in and around Minneapolis, according to local activists and videos posted to social media, which were verified by The New York Times. None had given consent for their faces to be recorded.

Facial recognition is just one technology tool that ICE has deployed in Minneapolis, where thousands of agents are conducting a crackdown. The technologies are being used not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track citizens who have protested ICE’s presence, said three current and former officials of the Department of Homeland Security who were not authorized to discuss confidential matters.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/technology/tech-ice-facial-recognition-palantir.html

As much as it may excite trump fans to know that technology is being used to create a data base to track protesters, it's not what we do here. Not here. At least it wasn't until the means authoritarian governments use to control and intimidate the populace were rolled out in MN.

The regime has already tried to normalize the military and or masked agents of the government patrolling the streets of selected (meaning blue) US cities. They are violating court orders, using excessive force, and occasionally killing people. Now they are surveilling them as well.

I gotta ask, are you OK with this?

Why should a private citizen trail a law enforcement agent in the process of a federal operation?

Didn’t read beyond that.

 

[Rogue AI]

Domestic terrorists should be tracked. They are a danger to society.

 

[berg80]

You don't need to give consent to be recorded in public. If you leave your home and walk down the street, I can video you all day long.

And if you are actively tailing LEOs, then you probably belong in a database.

How did you folks become willing to go along with the actions of an authoritarian government so quickly?

 

[berg80]

Domestic terrorists should be tracked. They are a danger to society.

Not domestic terrorists or a danger to society, so................. Though they may be a danger to the regime.

ICE is using two facial recognition programs in Minnesota, they said, including one made by the tech company Clearview AI and a newer program, Mobile Fortify. The agency is also using cellphone and social media tools to monitor people’s online activity and potentially hack into phones. And agents are tapping into a database, built by the data analytics company Palantir, that combines government and commercial data to identify real-time locations for individuals they are pursuing, the current and former officials said.

“The technologies are being deployed, or appear to be deployed, in a much more aggressive way than we have seen in the past,” said Nathan Freed Wessler, a lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union, which has sued the Homeland Security Department over the immigration operation in Minneapolis. “The conglomeration of all these technologies together is giving the government unprecedented abilities.”

 

[Eman623]

How did you folks become willing to go along with the actions of an authoritarian government so quickly?

When the other guy starts making the discussion about me, I know that's when I've won the debate.

Go away, loser.

 

[Rogue AI]

Not domestic terrorists or a danger to society, so................. Though they may be a danger to the regime.

ICE is using two facial recognition programs in Minnesota, they said, including one made by the tech company Clearview AI and a newer program, Mobile Fortify. The agency is also using cellphone and social media tools to monitor people’s online activity and potentially hack into phones. And agents are tapping into a database, built by the data analytics company Palantir, that combines government and commercial data to identify real-time locations for individuals they are pursuing, the current and former officials said.

“The technologies are being deployed, or appear to be deployed, in a much more aggressive way than we have seen in the past,” said Nathan Freed Wessler, a lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union, which has sued the Homeland Security Department over the immigration operation in Minneapolis. “The conglomeration of all these technologies together is giving the government unprecedented abilities.”

Facial recognition requires you be close enough to be seen by body cam or cell phone cam. Easy to avoid. If you use public access social media, anyone can view it. No problems here. The only monitoring someone is subject to is through their own public actions.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

How did you folks become willing to go along with the actions of an authoritarian government so quickly?

Are you talking about 2021 again?

No, put on your useless ******* mask, inject some more crap in your veins and huddle inside all day, k?

 

[berg80]

When the other guy starts making the discussion about me, I know that's when I've won the debate.

Go away, loser.

When the other guy won't answer a simple question about his acceptance of actions typically taken by authoritarian governments, cuz he finds it uncomfortable, I know I've hit a nerve.

GFY.

 

[berg80]

Are you talking about 2021 again?

I'm talking about what federal agents are doing in Minneapolis.

ICE has vastly expanded its tech tools over the last year after an influx of cash. In July, President Trump signed a bill increasing ICE’s annual budget to roughly $28 billion from $8 billion, making it the most richly funded law enforcement agency in the federal government.

In April, the Homeland Security Department awarded Palantir a nearly $30 million contract to build a system backed by artificial intelligence that would help find and track individuals for deportation. Palantir was due to deliver a prototype by Sept. 25, according to public tenders issued by the agency. The agency has started using the system, two current Homeland Security officials said.

Tracking criminals earmarked for deportation is one thing. Tracking US citizens exercising their 1st A right to protest is another.

 

[Eman623]

When the other guy won't answer a simple question about his acceptance of actions typically taken by authoritarian governments, cuz he finds it uncomfortable, I know I've hit a nerve.

GFY.

When the other guy starts demanding that I answer his baiting and false personal attack questions then I know I'm dealing with a complete a-hole.

 

[berg80]

And if you are actively tailing LEOs, then you probably belong in a database.

LEO's who are consistently breaking the law. They're the ones who belong in a database.

Judge in Minnesota Says ICE Has Violated Nearly 100 Court Orders​

A federal judge said ICE had disobeyed more judicial directives this month than “some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/us/politics/judge-minnesota-ice-court-orders.html

The fact that you defend these federal agents makes you someone who has lost respect for the Constitution and the protections it affords us.

 

[OKTexas]

How did you folks become willing to go along with the actions of an authoritarian government so quickly?

Of course you violently objected to the FBI using geofencing of cell phones and facial recognition to identify and arrest J6 protestors, even ones that never entered the capitol, RIGHT???????????? Like most radical leftist, your values seem to be very situational.

.

 

[Lisa558]

Of course you violently objected to the FBI using geofencing of cell phones and facial recognition to identify and arrest J6 protestors, even one that never entered the capitol, RIGHT???????????? Like most radical leftist, your values seem to be very situational.

.

If they didn’t have double standards, they’d have no standards at all.

We see examples of this all over the place. They villify the murdered unarmed vet - and defend the cop - at the Capitol, yet defend the ARMED agitator - and villify the cops - in MN.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

I'm talking about what federal agents are doing in Minneapolis.

ICE has vastly expanded its tech tools over the last year after an influx of cash. In July, President Trump signed a bill increasing ICE’s annual budget to roughly $28 billion from $8 billion, making it the most richly funded law enforcement agency in the federal government.

In April, the Homeland Security Department awarded Palantir a nearly $30 million contract to build a system backed by artificial intelligence that would help find and track individuals for deportation. Palantir was due to deliver a prototype by Sept. 25, according to public tenders issued by the agency. The agency has started using the system, two current Homeland Security officials said.

Tracking criminals earmarked for deportation is one thing. Tracking US citizens exercising their 1st A right to protest is another.

Ah, so you are not talking about a REAL police state like the one we had inde Xiden.

Duly noted

 

[Blaster]

How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are​

On the morning of Jan. 10, Nicole Cleland was in her car trailing an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent through Richfield, Minn., her hometown.

Suddenly, the agent turned into a series of one-way streets and stopped, getting out of his white Dodge Ram, said Ms. Cleland, who volunteers with a local watchdog group that observes the activity of immigration officers. The agent then walked over to Ms. Cleland’s car and surprised her by addressing her as Nicole.

“He said he had facial recognition and that his body camera was on,” said Ms. Cleland, 56, who had not met the agent before.

Ms. Cleland was one of at least seven American citizens told by ICE agents this month that they were being recorded with facial recognition technology in and around Minneapolis, according to local activists and videos posted to social media, which were verified by The New York Times. None had given consent for their faces to be recorded.

Facial recognition is just one technology tool that ICE has deployed in Minneapolis, where thousands of agents are conducting a crackdown. The technologies are being used not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track citizens who have protested ICE’s presence, said three current and former officials of the Department of Homeland Security who were not authorized to discuss confidential matters.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/technology/tech-ice-facial-recognition-palantir.html

As much as it may excite trump fans to know that technology is being used to create a data base to track protesters, it's not what we do here. Not here. At least it wasn't until the means authoritarian governments use to control and intimidate the populace were rolled out in MN.

The regime has already tried to normalize the military and or masked agents of the government patrolling the streets of selected (meaning blue) US cities. They are violating court orders, using excessive force, and occasionally killing people. Now they are surveilling them as well.

I gotta ask, are you OK with this?

I'm okay with this.

 

[berg80]

Of course you violently objected to the FBI using geofencing of cell phones and facial recognition to identify and arrest J6 protestors, even ones that never entered the capitol,

What crimes were they charged with and what crimes did the protesters being tracked commit? See the difference?

 

[Eman623]

LEO's who are consistently breaking the law. They're the ones who belong in a database.

They are in a database. ICE numnut protesters have a web site where they record the license plates of ICE vehicles.

It's only fitting ICE return the favor.

 

[berg80]

Ah, so you are not talking about a REAL police state like the one we had inde Xiden.

I should have known I wasn't dealing with someone grounded in reality.