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dylan604today at 7:39 PM3 repliesview on HN

"what is Fivecast ONYX? an AI-powered surveillance platform purchased by ICE for $4.2 million and CBP for additional license costs. according to Fivecast’s own documentation and EFF’s reporting, they do automated collection of multimedia data from social media and dark web, build “digital footprints” from biographical data, tracks shifts in sentiment and emotion, assigns risk scores, searches across 300+ platforms and 28+ billion data points, identifies people with “violent tendencies”"

Glad to know that my tinfoil hat wasn't too tight when social media came to be and this obvious use was predicted. How quickly will not having social media accounts become a crime?


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varenctoday at 7:51 PM

According to Persona's damage control article[0], the subdomain had "onyx" in its name because that's the internal code name for the project, and it's named after the pokémon Onyx. No connection to Fivecast ONYX.

[0] https://withpersona.com/blog/post-incident-review-source-map...

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a_victorptoday at 7:59 PM

It's already frowned upon when crossing the border

tamimiotoday at 8:09 PM

We need a list of these 300+ platforms

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