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ICE正在打造一个社交媒体全景监控系统。

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ICE正在打造一个社交媒体全景监控系统。

内容来源：https://www.theverge.com/policy/806425/ice-social-media-surveillance-free-speech-assault

内容总结：

美国移民与海关执法局（ICE）近期正加速部署一套人工智能驱动的社交媒体监控系统。据披露，该机构斥资570万美元与Zignal实验室签约，引进可每日分析超80亿条多语言社交内容的技术平台。该系统运用机器学习及图像识别技术，能通过社交平台公开信息锁定个人位置，甚至追溯目标人物亲友动态，引发民权组织对公民言论自由的严重担忧。

监管技术监督项目的沟通主管威尔·欧文指出，这种大规模监控手段是对民主制度和言论自由的严重冲击。电子前沿基金会民权事务主任戴维·格林强调，人工智能监控将导致寒蝉效应，使政府得以前所未有地压制异见声音。

值得注意的是，该监控体系已延伸至车牌扫描和手机移动轨迹追踪领域。与此同时，美国公民及移民服务局开始要求签证申请人提交社交媒体账号，国务院近期更以"支持恐怖组织"为由撤销数名人士签证。活动人士警告，这种监控技术若与政治打压结合，将形成威权式监控网络。

目前ICE已在佛蒙特州和加州部署近30名监控人员，部分岗位要求全天候值守。随着人工智能监控工具的升级，民众在互联网空间的言论自由正面临前所未有的威胁。

中文翻译：

随着美国移民与海关执法局在全国范围内展开突击行动，该机构正迅速扩展一套可追踪数百万网络用户的在线监控系统。《杠杆》披露的联邦记录显示，ICE斥资570万美元启用名为Zignal Labs的人工智能社交媒体监控平台，被监督技术监督项目通信主任威尔·欧文斥为对民主与自由的"悍然侵犯"。

该机构正在构建社交媒体全景监控塔
这份最新监控合同堪称对民主与自由的"悍然侵犯"。

据平台官网介绍，这款"实时情报"系统能够摄取分析海量公开数据。Zignal Labs在宣传册中宣称，其日处理量超过100种语言的80亿条贴文，运用机器学习、计算机视觉和光学字符识别技术，最终生成供ICE用于标记遣返对象的"定制监测流"。

宣传册特别强调该平台可捕获带地理定位的影像资料。典型案例显示，其通过分析电报群组视频精准定位加沙行动坐标，借助识别徽章标识"确认行动人员身份"并向现场部队发出警报。这意味着ICE完全可能根据TikTok视频或Facebook图片附着的定位信息追踪目标。

ICE通过政府IT服务商Carahsoft与Zignal签约。该公司近期曾与国家海洋和大气管理局合作分析公共媒体气象数据，2019年还与特勤局签约，并与国防部、交通部保持合作。《边缘》就合同细节问询Zignal未获即时回复。

社交媒体监控并非新鲜事。2016年美国公民自由联盟就发现警方使用中情局支持的Geofeedia工具追踪抗议者。但凭借雄厚资金，ICE能部署导致全国范围逮捕行动的监控体系。

"手握数十亿监控预算，ICE的社交媒体监控将无孔不入，"欧文警告，"这个无法无天的机构不仅用AI监控恐吓移民家庭，更会针对揭露暴行的活动家。这是用算法驱动、纳税人买单的对民主自由的突袭。"

"监控规模与对言论自由的寒蝉效应成正比。"

本月《连线》披露，ICE拟招募30名专员筛查主流社交平台，定位"威胁国家安全者"。内部文件显示监控范围将延伸至目标对象的亲友同事，12名外包人员将派驻佛蒙特监控中心，16名员工驻守加州，部分岗位需24小时待命。

电子前沿基金会公民自由主任戴维·格林指出："AI监控使政府能以人力不及的规模围剿异见。这种监控规模必然导致言论自由的急剧萎缩。"

除社交媒体外，ICE还接入了车牌扫描安防系统及手机移动轨迹追踪工具。

特朗普政府的监控网络持续扩张：公民及移民服务局拟要求绿卡申请者提交社交媒体账号；国务院六月将签证申请人社交平台审查范围扩大至更多非移民签证类别。

政府已启动"捕获-撤销"AI行动，清查学生签证持有人支持哈马斯的言论。本月国务院宣布撤销六名"庆祝右翼评论员遇袭"人员签证。纽约运河街九名摊贩在保守网红@ICE后遭逮捕。

如今手握AI利器的ICE不再需要网红举报就能锁定目标——网络自由发声正变得危机四伏。

"科技巨头与日益专制的联邦政府勾结，这是特朗普打压言论自由的延续，"科技监督项目执行主任萨沙·霍沃斯向《边缘》表示，"每个美国人都应感到恐惧与愤怒。"

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As Immigration and Customs Enforcement carries out raids across the country, the agency is working rapidly to expand an online surveillance system that could potentially track millions of users on the web. Federal records uncovered by The Lever reveal that ICE is paying $5.7 million to use an AI-powered social media monitoring platform called Zignal Labs, something Will Owen, the communications director at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP), calls an “assault” on democracy and free speech.
ICE is building a social media panopticon
The agency’s latest surveillance contract is an ’assault’ on democracy and free speech.
The agency’s latest surveillance contract is an ’assault’ on democracy and free speech.
The “real-time intelligence” platform is capable of ingesting and analyzing vast amounts of publicly available data, like social media posts, according to its website. In a pamphlet shared by The Lever, Zignal Labs says it uses machine learning, computer vision, and optical character recognition to analyze more than 8 billion posts per day in over 100 languages. This allows it to process and sort data into “curated detection feeds” that ICE could use to flag individuals for deportation.
The pamphlet highlights Zignal’s ability to capture geolocated images and videos while providing alerts and information to “operators.” One example states that Zignal Labs used its technology to analyze a Telegram video showing “the precise location of an ongoing operation in Gaza.” The company says its tool identified emblems and patches to “confirm the operators involved,” allowing it to notify operators on the ground. That means ICE could potentially trace someone’s location based on the location attached to a video posted on TikTok, or even a picture on Facebook.
ICE procured the contract with Zignal Labs through Carahsoft, a firm that deploys IT solutions for government agencies. Zignal Labs most recently partnered with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to analyze weather events from public and online media sources. It also inked a contract with the US Secret Service in 2019 and works with the Department of Defense and Department of Transportation, according to The Lever. The Verge reached out to Zignal Labs with a request for more information about its contract with ICE but didn’t immediately hear back.
Surveillance on social media isn’t anything new. In 2016, the American Civil Liberties Union found that police were using a CIA-backed tool called Geofeedia to track protesters of police brutality across Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. But with billions of dollars in funding, ICE has the budget to employ an array of social media monitoring tools that could lead to arrests and deportations across the country.
“With billions of dollars to spend on spyware, it’s extremely alarming to think how far ICE will go in surveilling social media,” Owen says. “ICE is a lawless agency that will use AI-driven social media monitoring not only to terrorize immigrant families, but also to target activists fighting back against their abuses. This is an assault on our democracy and right to free speech, powered by the algorithm and paid for with our tax dollars.”
“The scale of this spying is matched by an equally massive chilling effect on free speech.”
Earlier this month, a report from Wired revealed that ICE plans to hire almost 30 workers to comb through content on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, and other social platforms to “locate individuals who pose a danger to national security, public safety, and/or otherwise meet ICE’s law enforcement mission.”
A document seen by Wired shows that ICE is requesting information from contractors who could help the agency carry out the initiative, which may even require workers to search for data about a target’s family members, friends, or coworkers to pinpoint their whereabouts for ICE officers. The document notes that ICE would place around 12 contractors in a monitoring facility in Vermont, while 16 staff members would work in California, with some required to be available “at all times.”
David Greene, civil liberties director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, tells The Verge that automated and AI-powered monitoring tools will give the government the ability to “monitor social media for viewpoints it doesn’t like on a scale that was never possible with human review alone.” Greene adds, “The scale of this spying is matched by an equally massive chilling effect on free speech.”
Outside social media, 404 Media reports that ICE has tapped into license plate-scanning security cameras, as well as gained access to a tool that tracks the movement of millions of phones.
The Trump administration’s social media surveillance plans extend beyond ICE, with Citizenship and Immigration Services proposing an initiative that would require people applying for US citizenship or personal residency to provide their social media account handles. In 2019, the State Department began requiring some visa applicants to list their social media handles on sites they’ve used within the past year, but the agency expanded it to include more kinds of nonimmigrant visas in June.
The US government has already started trawling social media for posts that don’t align with the Trump administration’s viewpoints. In March, it began an AI-powered “Catch and Revoke” initiative to track down posts from student visa holders that appear to be in support of Hamas or other designated terror organizations. The State Department also announced earlier this month that it revoked the visas of six people who the US claimed “celebrated” the shooting of right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk. This week, ICE arrested nine street vendors on New York City’s Canal Street shortly after a conservative influencer tagged ICE in a post showing vendors in the area.
But now, with a powerful AI social media monitoring tool in the hands of ICE, the agency won’t need influencers to flag individuals for deportation — and it will only get riskier to speak freely on the internet.
“This is another example of Big Tech CEOs partnering with an increasingly authoritarian federal government as part of Trump’s ongoing attempts to clamp down on free speech,” Sacha Haworth, executive director of the Tech Oversight Project, tells The Verge. “This should terrify and anger every American.”
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