ICE wants to hire contractors to monitor social media for threats. Those who criticize the agency could be pulled into the dragnet.

The posting indicates that ICE isn’t merely looking to detect direct threats of violence, but also online criticism of the agency.

Scanning online speech in the name of homeland security is a bipartisan initiative.

(Here's the catch!)

The document also requests “Facial Recognition capabilities that could take a photograph of a subject and search the internet to find all relevant information associated with the subject.” The contract contains specific directions for targets found in other countries, implying the program would scan the domestic speech of American citizens. – Article

Friendly reminder that during Trump's first term, Zion Don did his part in helping collect biometric data under the guise of immigration surveillance. We are witnessing round 2 of the same exact thing; all under the guise of national security.👀⚠️