The U.S. military has seized another fugitive oil tanker linked to Venezuela in the Caribbean, U.S. Southern Command announced Thursday. The U.S. has now seized six oil tankers since ramping up a campaign against illicit oil trade by Venezuela. “In another pre-dawn action, Marines and Sailors from Joint Task Force Southern Spear, in support of […]

According to a report by The Times of Israel, a 4.2-magnitude earthquake was recorded in southern Israel on Tuesday, briefly shaking communities across the region but causing no reported injuries or damage. The tremor was detected by Israel’s Geological Survey and occurred in the country’s southern area, with its epicenter located near the border region. […]

According to a report from Charisma News, Phase 2 of the Gaza peace plan is now underway, marking a critical step in ongoing efforts to de-escalate the conflict and stabilize the region. The report states that negotiations have advanced following the initial phase, which focused on reducing hostilities and creating space for diplomatic engagement in […]

EFF last summer asked a federal judge to block the federal government from using Medicaid data to identify and deport immigrants.   We also warned about the danger of the Trump administration consolidating all of the government’s information into a single searchable, AI-driven interface with help from Palantir, a company that has a shaky-at-best record on privacy and human rights.  Now we have the first evidence that our concerns have become reality.  “Palantir is working on a tool for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that populates a map with potential deportation targets, brings up a dossier on each person, and provides a “confidence score” on the person’s current address,” 404 Media reports today. “ICE is using it to find locations where lots of people it might detain could be based.”  The tool – dubbed Enhanced Leads Identification & Targeting for Enforcement (ELITE) – receives peoples’ addresses from the Department of Health and Human Services (which includes Medicaid) and other sources, 404 Media reports based on court testimony in Oregon by law enforcement agents, among other sources.  This revelation comes as ICE – which has gone on a surveillance technology shopping spree – floods Minneapolis with agents, violently running roughshod over the civil rights of immigrants and U.S. citizens alike; President Trump has threatened to use the Insurrection Act of 1807 to deploy military troops against protestors there. Other localities are preparing for the possibility of similar surges.  Different government agencies necessarily collect information to provide essential services or collect taxes, but the danger comes when the government begins pooling that data and using it for reasons unrelated to the purpose it was collected. This kind of consolidation of government records provides enormous government power that can be abused. Different government agencies necessarily collect information to provide essential services or collect taxes, but the danger comes when the government begins pooling that data and using it for reasons unrelated to the purpose it was collected.  As EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn wrote in a Mercury News op-ed last August, “While couched in the benign language of eliminating government ‘data silos,’ this plan runs roughshod over your privacy and security. It’s a throwback to the rightly mocked ‘Total Information Awareness’ plans of the early 2000s that were, at least publicly, stopped after massive outcry from the public and from key members of Congress. It’s time to cry out again.”  In addition to the amicus brief we co-authored challenging ICE’s grab for Medicaid data, EFF has successfully sued over DOGE agents grabbing personal data from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, filed an amicus brief in a suit challenging ICE’s grab for taxpayer data, and sued the departments of State and Homeland Security to halt a mass surveillance program to monitor constitutionally protected speech by noncitizens lawfully present in the U.S.  But litigation isn’t enough. People need to keep raising concerns via public discourse and Congress should act immediately to put brakes on this runaway train that threatens to crush the privacy and security of each and every person in America.  

The U.S. struck a trade deal with Taiwan as the country looks to help boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing.

The out-of-control leftists in Minnesota are now stopping people in SUVs to make sure they are not ICE officers. The man below looks nothing like an ICE officer and is only carrying . . .

FBI Director Kash Patel is offering a MASSIVE reward for information that leads to an arrest of thugs in Minneapolis who vandalized and broke into the vehicles of federal agents and stole . . .