{"id":3563,"date":"2025-05-30T17:24:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T17:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/?p=3563"},"modified":"2025-05-30T17:24:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T17:24:50","slug":"intercept-briefing-podcast-trumps-surveillance-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/?p=3563","title":{"rendered":"Intercept Briefing Podcast: Trump\u2019s Surveillance Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><!-- BLOCK(acast)[0](%7B%22componentName%22%3A%22ACAST%22%2C%22entityType%22%3A%22SHORTCODE%22%2C%22optional%22%3Afalse%7D)(%7B%22id%22%3A%22how-student-protesters-and-immigrants-became-targets-of-trum%22%2C%22podcast%22%3A%22intercept-presents%22%2C%22subscribe%22%3Atrue%7D) --><\/p>\n<p>\n  <iframe src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/intercept-presents\/how-student-protesters-and-immigrants-became-targets-of-trum?accentColor=111111&amp;bgColor=f5f6f7&amp;logo=false\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"acast-player__embed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- END-BLOCK(acast)[0] --><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"has-underline\">\u201cCatch and revoke\u201d<\/span> \u2014 the phrase sounds like something from a dystopian thriller, but it\u2019s Secretary of State Marco Rubio\u2019s very real characterization of the Trump administration\u2019s new <a href=\"https:\/\/statedept.substack.com\/p\/100-days-of-an-america-first-state-department\">one-strike visa cancellation policy <\/a>targeting foreign students. A State Department spokesperson said that \u201cfull social media vetting\u201d will be used for visa interviews and will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-state-dept-announces-new-student-visa-vetting-ongoing-process-not-one-time-check\">ongoing<\/a> while the student remains in the U.S. for studies.<\/p>\n<p>On this week\u2019s episode of The Intercept Briefing, host Akela Lacy speaks to anthropologist <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/staff\/sophia-goodfriend\/\">Sophia Goodfriend<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/staff\/chris-gelardi\/\">Chris Gelardi<\/a>, a reporter for <a href=\"https:\/\/nysfocus.com\/2025\/04\/23\/trump-ice-new-york-gang-database-deportation\">New York Focus<\/a> investigating surveillance and the criminal legal system. They unpack how AI and surveillance technology are being weaponized to <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/collections\/chilling-dissent\/\">silence dissent<\/a> on American campuses and fuel the <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/collections\/the-war-on-immigrants\/\">deportations of immigrants<\/a> nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the past few months, as we see the expansion of government surveillance, the crackdown of ICE on both legal residents and undocumented people in this country, we see these technologies  lending a veneer of algorithmic efficiency to increasingly draconian policies,\u201d says Goodfriend.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BLOCK(cta)[1](%7B%22componentName%22%3A%22CTA%22%2C%22entityType%22%3A%22SHORTCODE%22%2C%22optional%22%3Atrue%7D)(%7B%7D) --><\/p>\n<p><!-- END-BLOCK(cta)[1] --><\/p>\n<p>The effort is <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2025\/04\/17\/ice-deportation-contracts-us-advisors\/\">powered<\/a> by more<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2025\/04\/14\/ice-surveillance-wire-western-union-arizona-trac\/\"> companies<\/a> than most people realize. \u201cTo enforce all of that and to bolster those efforts are a host of different kinds of both small AI startups, of data brokers, of large tech conglomerates like Meta, OpenAI, Palantir, and the like. So it is really this kind of enormous dragnet of surveillance that\u2019s bolstered by the tech industry that\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2024\/11\/17\/tech-industry-trump-military-contracts\/\"> increasingly aligned<\/a> with the Trump administration,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>But this surveillance machine extends well beyond university campuses. The same technologies are being deployed against immigrant communities across the country.<\/p>\n<p>This means every digital footprint becomes potential evidence for deportation proceedings. <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2025\/03\/17\/lapd-surveillance-gaza-palestine-protests-dataminr\/\">Social media posts<\/a>, location data, facial recognition from community events, and even routine traffic stops feed into massive databases. Gelardi explains that one of the more concerning sources of information comes from state police gang <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/12\/05\/nypd-gang-database\/\">databases<\/a>, which are rife with <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/06\/18\/dc-police-gang-database-hacked-emails\/\">mistakes<\/a>. \u201cI think all evidence suggests that these are very under-regulated and that they operate in a way where they\u2019re really ripe for garbage data and inaccuracies,\u201d he says. He cites some gang databases that had children under 5 listed.<\/p>\n<p>Gelardi explains that local law enforcement enters names into state databases that feed to the national crime information center run by the FBI. Law enforcement at all levels \u2014 local, state, and federal \u2014 can access it on their phones. \u201cAnything that the state police funnels to the feds is immediately available to pretty much any ICE agent,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>To understand more about the tech infrastructure powering deportations and what this digital crackdown means for everyone, listen to the full conversation of The Intercept Briefing on<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-intercept-briefing\/id1195206601\"> Apple Podcasts<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/2js8lwDRiK1TB4rUgiYb24?si=e3ce772344ee4170\"> Spotify<\/a>, or wherever you listen.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2025\/05\/30\/trump-surveillance-students-protesters\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCatch and revoke\u201d \u2014 the phrase sounds like something from a dystopian thriller, but it\u2019s Secretary of State Marco Rubio\u2019s very real characterization of the Trump administration\u2019s new one-strike visa cancellation policy targeting foreign students. A State Department spokesperson said that \u201cfull social media vetting\u201d will be used for visa interviews and will be ongoing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}