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There are documented cases where law enforcement used AI-chat logs or AI-related activity as leads in CSAM investigations, and prosecutors have charged people for creating or possessing AI-generated C...
Researchers and journalists document multiple practical workarounds to Discord’s age-gating—VPNs, in‑game photo tricks and third‑party code—while experts warn that such bypasses expose platforms to le...
Yes — federal reporting and court records show has obtained and used Medicaid-derived information as part of tools and processes to locate people who may be in the country unlawfully, though the pract...
A clear majority of Americans currently view ICE unfavorably: recent national polls show roughly half to a majority disapproving of how the agency operates, and support for protests or abolition has j...
As of 2025, Tor Browser, Firefox (with strict settings), Brave, and Safari are the desktop browsers most frequently cited as offering built‑in defenses against fingerprinting; Tor provides the stronge...
DuckDuckGo’s browsers and extensions implement active fingerprinting protections: they override many browser APIs to return no or less-useful data and offer features like cookie protection, tracker bl...
Law enforcement does prosecute people linked to illegal activity on Tor, but prosecutions usually follow investigative work that links a person to crimes—often via operational mistakes, surveillance o...
Yes—reporting documents that ICE has acquired and deployed a range of technologies that can identify people with facial-recognition tools and extend surveillance into communities via location and biom...
A definitive, exhaustively sourced list of " citizens that have been killed or detained illegally by " cannot be produced from the documents supplied because the reporting is partial, contested, and f...
Viewing or possessing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is treated as a crime in U.S. law and by major advocacy groups: federal statutes and state laws make creation, possession, or distribution of C...
Internet service providers (ISPs log which subscriber received which public IP address at what time, but retention practices are inconsistent: some carriers keep those DHCP/IP-assignment logs for only...
In 2025 independent testing and specialist guides repeatedly identify Tor, Brave, and Firefox (and Firefox forks like LibreWolf) as the strongest mainstream options for fingerprint and tracker resista...
The most direct, authoritative figure available comes from ’s Map, which states that approximately of the 1,954‑mile will be “without barrier” and instead covered by detection technology due to unfavo...
Federal law does not create a single, bright‑line ban on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) using drones over neighborhoods, but a patchwork of constraints—airspace safety rules enforced by the...
Federal datasets and FOIA-derived releases show ICE’s enforcement footprint grew dramatically in 2024–2025 compared with the previous decade, shifting from mostly jail-based, case-specific interior ar...
DuckDuckGo publicly denies that it fingerprints users to track them, while also saying it uses and overrides browser APIs to protect privacy—actions that can both reduce some fingerprinting and create...
A clear global divide has emerged: many countries have deployed or are mandating , but sizable democracies and a number of EU member states still allow citizens to function without a compulsory digita...
DuckDuckGo’s search results and its Smarter Encryption feature focus on enforcing HTTPS (the TLS-encrypted HTTP protocol) by maintaining and using a large, continuously generated list of sites that su...
Bystanders generally have a legal right to observe and record ICE activity in public so long as they do not interfere with officers’ work, and courts and civil-rights groups warn that interfering can ...
Major ISPs and DNS providers follow a patchwork of practices: some jurisdictions (e.g., EU, Australia) have mandatory retention laws requiring ISPs to store connection metadata for fixed periods, whil...