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VOICE ARCHIVE

McKenzie Funk

@mckenziefunk
7 posts
2023-09-25
I suggest that everyone on the internet read the story I have out today in @NYTmag. I've been working on it for six years...(OK, it's a book excerpt. More on that soon). Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-09-25 View on X
New York Times

A profile of Hank Asher, the “father of data fusion” who died in 2013 after initiating a vast shift in privacy norms through his data mining software companies

McKenzie Funk / New York Times : X: @fighto , @badassdogooder , @wolfiechristl , and @mckenziefunk X: Paul Shapiro / @fighto : An absolutely insane story. Should be made into a mo...

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2019-10-03
ICE officers rolled in knowing names, nicknames, numbers, addresses, license plates, emails, social-media handles, patterns of life. “They knew everything,” residents said. I decided to find out how. Many months + many records requests later, some answers: https://www.nytimes.com/...
2019-10-03 View on X
New York Times

An in-depth look at how ICE, under Obama and then Trump, has aggressively used big data, fed by social media, to clamp down on undocumented immigrants

a testament to the agency's quiet embrace of big data. https://www.nytimes.com/... “Surveillance works best when you don't notice it.” Tim Shorrock / @timothys : NYT reports that, ...

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Sixth lesson: You can't just delete your account, not with utilities and phone companies selling your info to data brokers, not with facial recognition and automated license plate readers spreading to every corner. We're datafying the physical space.
2019-10-03 View on X
New York Times

An in-depth look at how ICE, under Obama and then Trump, has aggressively used big data, fed by social media, to clamp down on undocumented immigrants

a testament to the agency's quiet embrace of big data. https://www.nytimes.com/... “Surveillance works best when you don't notice it.” Tim Shorrock / @timothys : NYT reports that, ...

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Fifth: Those same data brokers sell to other agencies big and small, federal and local. This machine starts but doesn't have to end with immigrants. The same infrastructure harnessed by ICE could be used to profile and target any category of undesirable.
2019-10-03 View on X
New York Times

An in-depth look at how ICE, under Obama and then Trump, has aggressively used big data, fed by social media, to clamp down on undocumented immigrants

a testament to the agency's quiet embrace of big data. https://www.nytimes.com/... “Surveillance works best when you don't notice it.” Tim Shorrock / @timothys : NYT reports that, ...

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Fourth lesson: Without social media and without private contractors providing data services, including @thomsonreuters, @VigilantSol, and many, many others, ICE would have a harder time finding people where they live.
2019-10-03 View on X
New York Times

An in-depth look at how ICE, under Obama and then Trump, has aggressively used big data, fed by social media, to clamp down on undocumented immigrants

a testament to the agency's quiet embrace of big data. https://www.nytimes.com/... “Surveillance works best when you don't notice it.” Tim Shorrock / @timothys : NYT reports that, ...

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A second lesson: It's harder to stop data-sharing than it was to start. It's not that norms are changing and our personal info is just out there on social media, not just that. It's that after 9/11 we networked system after system so we'd never again fail to “connect the dots.”
2019-10-03 View on X
New York Times

An in-depth look at how ICE, under Obama and then Trump, has aggressively used big data, fed by social media, to clamp down on undocumented immigrants

a testament to the agency's quiet embrace of big data. https://www.nytimes.com/... “Surveillance works best when you don't notice it.” Tim Shorrock / @timothys : NYT reports that, ...

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Thread: In late 2017, I heard about an immigration crackdown in the supposed sanctuary state of Washington. ICE arrested a mom selling a piñata on Facebook. A grandpa who'd filed U.S taxes for almost 20 years. A school social worker. Dozens from one coastal county.
2019-10-03 View on X
New York Times

An in-depth look at how ICE, under Obama and then Trump, has aggressively used big data, fed by social media, to clamp down on undocumented immigrants

a testament to the agency's quiet embrace of big data. https://www.nytimes.com/... “Surveillance works best when you don't notice it.” Tim Shorrock / @timothys : NYT reports that, ...

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