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Tag: domestic surveillance

🦄 Investigative, Police, Tech

Cobwebs Spy Software Locks Onto Protesters: Israeli Social Media Mining Contract with Homeland Security Revealed

June 14, 2024June 14, 2024

An Israeli spy software tech firm licenses web surveillance tools to law enforcement and intelligence agencies. The software contract shows new details about this sensitive technology DHS has used to spy on activists during the last several years.

🦄 Tech

Aimed at Protests, Surveillance Contractor’s New Owners Expand Spy Tech Portfolio

August 20, 2023June 15, 2024

In 2020, while protests raged in nearly every city in the United States, a privately owned Israeli spyware firm helped the Department of Homeland Security monitor the online presences of Americans—including protesters and journalists. That company is now set to join forces with competitors, creating…

🦄 Investigative, Police, Tech

Criminal Intel Files Show Facial Recognition, Warrantless Surveillance in Minnesota

December 20, 2022April 12, 2024

Minneapolis, MN – Documents obtained via a series of public records requests from the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) provide rare insight into police intelligence gathering. The documents include case numbers in which facial recognition was used, details about systems that gain access to vehicle…

🦄 Tech

“Definition of Cypherpunk”: Technologist, Privacy Activist Kevin Gallagher Passes Away

June 13, 2021June 13, 2021

San Francisco, CA – In a shock sweeping the Internet freedom community, technologist, security expert and organizer Kevin Michael Gallagher was discovered deceased in his San Francisco apartment on June 10. Early word from the local coroner is that he passed away June 5, his…

🦄 Investigative, Social Control, Tech

FBI Spy Plane Circled Minneapolis in Lead-Up to Chauvin Trial, Identified by Air Traffic Audio

March 5, 2021March 5, 2021

Minneapolis, MN – The morning of Thursday, March 4, saw Minneapolitans waking up to the noise of a surveillance aircraft circling. The spy plane circled from around 9:15 a.m. until departing the airspace just after noon. There are likely to be similar flights in the…

🦄 Investigative

Icebreaker Pt 11 – Bush/Clinton Era Customs Investigators Manuals

February 13, 2020April 21, 2025

United States – Unicorn Riot obtained more than two dozen Homeland Security policy manuals including several from the 1980s and 1990s – 195 pages in all. This is the last release in our Icebreaker series.
While some of these documents have appeared elsewhere in various…

🦄 Investigative

Icebreaker Pt. 5 – Confidential Homeland Security Undercover Operations Handbook

June 22, 2018April 21, 2025

Washington, DC – As the Trump administration’s immigration policies continue to generate escalating backlash, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has come under increasing scrutiny. Journalists, senators, and others attempting to learn more about the agency’s practices have been frequently turned away and/or had their requests…

🦄 Investigative

Icebreaker Pt 4 – Homeland Security Special Agent On-the-Job Training Manual

April 27, 2018April 21, 2025

Unicorn Riot obtained a series of Homeland Security Investigations policy manuals. Part 4 of the Icebreaker series of stories covers the 2008 version of the special agent training program, shedding light on the overall architecture of the Department of Homeland Security and how it instills…

🦄 Social Control, Tech

House Democrats Endorse Domestic Surveillance Powers For Trump

January 11, 2018January 11, 2018

Washington, DC – In a vote denounced by civil liberties advocates, the US House of Representatives has voted 256 to 164 in favor of re-authorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA – one of the main legal underpinnings of the unaccountable…


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