Save the date: Wednesday, June 22, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. ET. We are hosting The Color of Surveillance: Policing of Abortion and Reproduction. This is a mini, virtual edition of our usual in-person, all-day #ColorOfSurveillance conferences. We will: hold space for reflections on and reactions to the likely overturning of Roe v. Wade, and the implications for the future of gender equality, racial justice, LGBTQ+ rights, and civil rights;

1/ 🚨NEW REPORT 🚨
We’re excited to release our new investigation into ICE surveillance: americandragnet.org.

What did we find in two years of research on thousands of records? ICE surveillance is much broader than people realize–it’s an #AmericanDragnet. 2/ ICE has used face recognition to scan the driver’s license photos of *1 in 3* adults.

Even in states that encouraged undocumented drivers to apply for licenses.

1/ Today, based on research by @NinaLWang, the House Oversight Subcommittee on Economic & Consumer Policy and @RepJimmyGomez sent letters to Equifax and Thomson Reuters demanding info on how companies share utility information with ICE. From @DrewHarwell: washingtonpost.com/technology/202… 2/ It’s been known that ICE could access 400M+ customer profiles from 80+ water, gas, electric & other utilities companies through its subscription to Thomson Reuters CLEAR. It's also been known that Thomson Reuters doesn’t collect these records itself—it gets them from Equifax.

HAPPENING NOW: House Committee on Energy and Commerce (@EnergyCommerce) is holding a hearing on “Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Big Data.” Watch here:
energycommerce.house.gov/committee-acti… .@BrandingBrandi of @colorofchange, testifying to the committee, connects privacy rights to broader civil rights. Threats to privacy disproportionately impact people of color, low-income communities, and other marginalized people.