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Agents use facial recognition, social media monitoring and other tech tools not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track protesters, current and former officials said.

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[–] Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (7 children)

Reasons I installed GrapheneOS November 2024 and moved to Lemmy/Mastodon only in July 2023, intensifies.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 days ago (4 children)

That only mitigates. There are still a number of ways to potentially track a hardened phone, and countless ways to breach proper OPSEC on social media that have nothing to do with the platform.

Don't rely entirely on system choices to keep you safe.

[–] Archer@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Yep your modem baseband is 100% hackable or already backdoored

[–] Calfpupa@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

Where can I learn more about this?

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