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ICE Masks Up in More Ways Than One (Feds could be in your group chat) (www.kenklippenstein.com)
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The new program, called “masked engagement,” allows homeland security officers to assume false identities and interact with users—friending them, joining closed groups, and gaining access to otherwise private postings, photographs, friend lists and more.

A senior Department of Homeland Security official tells me that over 6,500 field agents and intelligence operatives can use the new tool, a significant increase explicitly linked to more intense monitoring of American citizens.

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[-] NimbleNemesis@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

I already assume everyone in my group chat is a fed.

[-] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

That's just what a Fed would say!

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