{"id":219830,"date":"2026-03-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/the-era-of-total-control-technology-finds-us-wherever-we-are\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T12:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T17:15:13","slug":"the-era-of-total-control-technology-finds-us-wherever-we-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/the-era-of-total-control-technology-finds-us-wherever-we-are\/","title":{"rendered":"The Era of Total Control: Technology Finds Us Wherever We Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/americancommunitymedia.org\/science-technology\/the-era-of-total-control-technology-finds-us-wherever-we-are\/\">The Era of Total Control: Technology Finds Us Wherever We Are<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/americancommunitymedia.org\/science-technology\/the-era-of-total-control-technology-finds-us-wherever-we-are\/\">https:\/\/americancommunitymedia.org\/science-technology\/the-era-of-total-control-technology-finds-us-wherever-we-are\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-04 12:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"americancommunitymedia.org\">americancommunitymedia.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s nowhere left to hide!\u201d was the title of a recent press conference in San Francisco, where a panel of experts in technology, law and immigration policy warned about the transformation of law enforcement agencies into technological powerhouses operating with little democratic oversight.<\/p>\n<p>The conference at the World Affairs Council in San Francisco, organized by American Community Media in collaboration with the San Francisco Local Media Coalition, focused on how tools originally designed for warfare and counterterrorism are now being used for mass deportation and the everyday surveillance of citizens.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-invisible-online-raids\">Invisible Online Raids<\/h2>\n<p>Ariel G. Ruiz Soto, senior analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, describes the breaking down of \u201cdata silos\u201d between federal agencies. (Photo by Selen Ozturk)<\/p>\n<p>Ariel Ruiz Soto, senior analyst at the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), was the first panelist to address how Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has become the best-funded law enforcement agency in the country, after receiving a budget of $10 billion, plus an additional $75 million in 2025. One of the most alarming points raised by Ruiz is the breaking down of \u201cdata silos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But what does this mean? The term refers to information storage systems that are isolated from one another \u2014 that is, data that was previously private, such as health records, IRS tax records and driver\u2019s licenses \u2014 now flows into a centralized database called \u201cImmigration OS,\u201d developed by Palantir.<\/p>\n<p>This system uses artificial intelligence to conduct life-pattern analysis, predicting habits that facilitate real-time detentions. The government has moved from traditional raid techniques to what he calls \u201cinvisible online raids.\u201d This makes clear that the pursuit no longer begins on the street, but on servers, through which the government can locate and profile individuals without needing immigration agents in the field.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-science-fiction-technology-on-the-streets\">Science Fiction Technology on&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/americancommunitymedia.org\/science-technology\/the-era-of-total-control-technology-finds-us-wherever-we-are\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Era of Total Control: Technology Finds Us Wherever We Are https:\/\/americancommunitymedia.org\/science-technology\/the-era-of-total-control-technology-finds-us-wherever-we-are\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-04&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/americancommunitymedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_7661-scaled-e1772575643529.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[101],"class_list":["post-219830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219830"}],"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=219830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219832,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219830\/revisions\/219832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}