Trump goes on spyware purchasing blitz to help ICE find people who they claim want to overthrow of the United States

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Friday 17 October 2025 14:58 BST


The Trump administration has gone on a spyware spending blitz to bolster Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s mission to seek out undocumented migrants, and people who they claim want to “overthrow the United States Government.” ICE is spending tens of millions of dollars on new spyware contracts, which include eye-scanning apps, software that tracks a phone without a court warrant and can hack into them remotely, and recruiting new staff to man a social media monitoring network.

The agency has relied on surveillance technology for more than two decades. But since Trump designated the movement known as Antifa as a major “domestic terrorist” organization, ICE’s recent spyware spending spree is ringing alarm bells for lawmakers and civil rights groups, who fear it could be used to surveil those who protest the government.

Trump recently described Antifa as “a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law.”

Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, whose home state has been at the center of ICE clashes with protesters outside its detention center in Portland, said he was worried by the contracts. “I’m extremely concerned about how ICE will use spyware, facial recognition and other technology to further trample on the rights of Americans and anyone who Donald Trump labels as an enemy,” Wyden told The Washington Post.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-ice-spyware-contracts-protesters-b2847405.html

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Full headline: Trump goes on spyware purchasing blitz to help ICE find people who they claim want to ‘overthrow of the United States Government’

[Lovie777]

1. GQP want to try and overthrow the government again.................

[Stuckinthebush]

2. Those dumb ass Trump voters

They were convinced that the Dems would be monitoring people and being Big Brother. Lo and behold - they were duped! Next the GOP will come for their guns. Idiots.

[Solly Mack]

3. ...

[chowder66]

4. I can save them millions upon millions of dollars. The address is Mar-A-Lago.

[twodogsbarking]

6. launch the missles 5-4-3-2-1 let's party.

[Initech]

5. I don't want to overthrow the United States. I just want every Fox News content creator out of office.

Fox News does not own the government.

[GB_RN]

7. Only One Man Has Tried To Overthrow The Government...

And that asshole is pushing software to help ICE find people who want to overthrow our government? What. And I cannot emphasize this enough…THE FUCK?!?!

Irony is not only dead, but its corpse was molested, mutilated and burned by Cantaloupe Caligula the Corpulent.

[twodogsbarking]

8. But getting rid of the government is different than overthrowing it? Who knew.

[Bayard]

9. So, they're going to spy on us here at DU,

And arrest us for protesting.

Yeah. We're there.

[popsdenver]

10. Isn't there

some extreme spy software being sold by Israel, that is the most advanced out there? Maybe, wanting that spy software, is a quid pro quo of Trump's in turn for letting Netanyahu continue the Genocide in Gaza and continuing to supply him with more weapons......

I have noticed a lot more cameras in the intersections that I drive thru everyday here in Denver, along with License Plate Readers in many intersections and on major highways......

[BidenRocks]

11. Where is he getting the money?

Like his businesses, he will bankrupt America.

[louis-t]

12. So, anyone who wants him out of office

will now be accused of trying to overthrow the government.

[eppur_se_muova]

13. They all work for the White House -- no software needed. Just basic awareness. nt