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Holy shit. Teen Vogue FTW.
They’re not even fucking around about it, either.
After we began offering trainings in immigrant neighborhood parking lots and circulating Spanish-language videos with tips for how to spot ICE agents, our volunteers came into contact with federal agents. After a volunteer confirmed an officer’s identity, they would alert neighbors to the agent’s presence, and our dispatch team would send a text message to our contacts in the area. ICE agents almost never carry judicial warrants giving them the authority to enter private homes or businesses without permission, so they often wait to make an arrest when the person they’re looking for leaves their home or car. And in every case we worked on, when the agents realized they were being watched, they abandoned their stakeout.
Teen Vogue have always been like this, suprisingly.
Pretty decent article. Hat’s off to Teen Vogue.
A Mexican joint near me just got raided by ICE. My city is nowhere close to the border and has a small migrant community. Defo a bad sign, I didn’t even know ICE existed where I live.
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At the moment who the fuck cares about it being legal? When the law is unjust it must be broken.
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Yikes.
What an odd reaction to a very obvious fact…
It’s just shit and worrying that people care more about legality than doing the right thing. If only we didn’t live in a culture that conditioned them so.
IANAL but probably not legal due to them having rights to their photos and you can be sure they will find some legal way to shut you down.
However an face recognition api trained with such photos might fly under the radar or even be legal.
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I continue to absolutely ADORE the fact that the abbreviation for “I am not a lawyer” sounds like an Isaac Asimov porn parody 😁🥰
Also not a lawyer, but it’s my understanding no one has an expectation of privacy in a public place. There isn’t an exception for officers of the law. I’m reasonably confident there’s no legal basis to block you from taking pictures or videos of them. They could harass you for doing so, but I don’t think they can legally stop you.
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In Europe you can photograph/film public scenes legally and if it happens that a person is recognizable on it they have only limited recourse, but specifically taking photos of faces and publishing them is another matter. I imagine this isn’t so different in the US.
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If they’re acting in a capacity for the government, they’re public servants with no expectations of privacy. Also, if you’re in public, there’s no expectations of privacy as is.
Take their photos and film them. Let them know they’re being watched and their actions will be scrutinized. Authoritarians are less likely to escalate if there’s evidence and they think there will be some kind of consequences. And they just have to wonder if some Mario will go green some day.
Facial recognition software is super ubiquitous. Hosting some VMs with some plugin for this should be trivial.
Does anybody know any good resources to get involved in watches against ICE like the article suggests?
I looked for it for my town and only found the address for the local ICE headquarters.
