It took a minute, but today, the DHS is paying data-brokers and ad-tech giants like Google for commercial surveillance data that it is using to feed the systems that automatically decide who will be kidnapped, rendered and tortured by ICE:
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/27/ice_data_advertising_tech_firms/
I want to be clear here: I'm not claiming *any* prescience - quite the reverse in fact. My point is that *it just wasn't very hard to see what would happen if we let the surveillance advertising industry run wild.*
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Cory Doctorow
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