Mother Jones: Records Reveal How Homeland Security Agents Surveilled ICE Protesters
“On July 24, the Electronic Privacy Information Center and three legal observers filed a First Amendment lawsuit against DHS, alleging the agency has ‘adopt[ed] a secret Protester Surveillance Policy enabling its agents to first collect records on Americans engaging in First Amendment exercise and then maintain them in DHS systems, where they can be used to retaliate … Continued
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Published: 27 July 2026
Source: EPIC
Category: Field notes
Topics: Regulation · Privacy · Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 2 August 2026
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