{"id":208245,"date":"2026-01-30T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/30\/clashes-between-ice-and-protesters-come-down-to-the-technology\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T14:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:10:09","slug":"clashes-between-ice-and-protesters-come-down-to-the-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/30\/clashes-between-ice-and-protesters-come-down-to-the-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Clashes between ICE and protesters come down to the technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/01\/30\/2026\/clashes-between-ice-and-protesters-come-down-to-the-technology\">Clashes between ICE and protesters come down to the technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/01\/30\/2026\/clashes-between-ice-and-protesters-come-down-to-the-technology\">https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/01\/30\/2026\/clashes-between-ice-and-protesters-come-down-to-the-technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-30 14:02:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.semafor.com\">www.semafor.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The clash between immigration enforcement agents and protesters in Minneapolis is the latest front in a high-stakes global arms race between governments and their domestic foes over who has better technology \u2014 and who has the right to use it.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown \u2014 and the extra funding that came along with it \u2014 spearheaded an era of surveillance tech aided by Palantir and other powerful AI companies: Facial recognition apps that reveal a person\u2019s immigration status, phone tracking technology, AI agents, and spyware that remotely hacks into phones and helps federal law enforcement target individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Activists are also tapping tech to try and fight back. To warn community members when ICE agents are nearby, Sherman Austin, an activist and technician in Long Beach, California, created a national database of license plates connected with immigration operations, and a text alert system to track and broadcast the movements of federal agents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re running around en masse. They won\u2019t identify themselves,\u201d Austin said. \u201cThis is a tool that we can at least use to keep track of their whereabouts, so we can tell our friends and neighbors when they\u2019re nearby.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tracking efforts have been described by the Trump administration and supporters as domestic terrorism, with Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale referring to activist networks as \u201corganized illegal insurgency\u201d and billionaire Elon Musk spreading posts on his platform with similar characterizations.<\/p>\n<p>Apps that share the locations of federal agents paint \u201ca target on federal law enforcement officers\u2019 backs,\u201d connecting them to an increase in assaults on agents, ICE director Todd M. Lyons said in June, referencing an ICE-spotting app that officials pressured Apple to remove from its app store. (The DHS didn\u2019t respond to requests for further comment).<\/p>\n<p>From a legal perspective, participating in assaulting or impeding federal officers is illegal, and if a stranger&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/01\/30\/2026\/clashes-between-ice-and-protesters-come-down-to-the-technology\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clashes between ICE and protesters come down to the technology https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/01\/30\/2026\/clashes-between-ice-and-protesters-come-down-to-the-technology Publish Date: 2026-01-30 14:02:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.semafor.com\/80a3209dd5e6e867258fa09b322a1f53f9a94c91-5000x3335.jpg?rect=0,356,5000,2625&w=1200&h=630&q=75&auto=format","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208247,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208245\/revisions\/208247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}