Online Resistance Grows as ICE Expands Domestic Surveillance

ICE has expanded its domestic surveillance toolkit—including facial recognition, cross-agency data access, and private-sector contracts—to accelerate mass deportations and crack down on protests. In response, online activists, encrypted-messaging users, and hacktivist groups are tracking raids, reporting locations, and exposing security flaws in enforcement networks, while platforms and federal agencies push back against anti-ICE organizing and a DHS data breach leaks staff details.