ICE’s facial scanning is the tip of the surveillance iceberg

The federal occupation of Minnesota has, in many ways, been a war of dueling cameras, with observers documenting Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions and masked government agents filming content for the White House to share. Beyond the government’s appetite for social media imagery, the ubiquity of Department of Homeland Security officials with smartphones in hand is a feature of the administration’s deepening embrace of domestic surveillance. From facial scanning to neighborhood mapping and beyond...