#Minneapolis ALERT: #ICE trying to follow white people after grocery shopping, trying to follow them to hidden migrant families.

@sleepingexplorer Yes it is and the Osmand frontend works offline wirh predownloaded maps. It is NOT safe however to type addresses inro a phone for this, not even into a text editor. If you are ambushed at a stoplight it's a lot faster and easier to stuff a paper map in your mouth than to reliably lock a phone. Remember too some folks will have weak passphrases or phones "backed up" to Google or Apple.

Please do not type the address of any migrant hiding from ICE into any electronic device while in a car that can be ambushed by cops, and do not take your phone outside your house without keeping it locked with no biometrics if you are forced to rely on electonics to transmit or receive grocery delivery locations.

@ryanprior
ICE has followed people delivering groceries to immigrant families. They have also regularly waited outside grocery stores.
No they're probably not following random white people just in case they're delivering groceries to immigrants.
Therefore, yes they're probably using tracking and surveillance resources at their disposal target people they think are delivering groceries to immigrants to intimate them and target the immigrants. Some of that requires a warrant, some only a subpoena and a shitty company unwilling to push back, some requires neither and is readily available to them such as software to access the same location data companies can just buy.

People delivering groceries for immigrants should:
-Be aware ICE could end up following you and have a plan for if they do
-Be in touch with local organized networks or organizations about infosec and opsec best practices
-Do what they can to leave less electronic trail about what they're up to
@nickapos @LukefromDC

@iampytest1 Someone else on the ground reports this has been going on a couple weeks. My GUESS is they wait at grocery stores for specifc cars to appear

@nickapos 3ed party data aggregators buying data from app vendors such as Facebook do, and much less accurate tower location data is also bought and sold.

@nickapos Google at least supposedly moved location history to on-device to avoid abortion-related subpeonas from states like Texas.

@LukefromDC @socketwench Hope they need a trip to mexico because Im not going home now

@kkarhan If I could get myself and family out of this dystopian hell hole Id be on the first whatever outta here...

@nickapos @LukefromDC

@glent @sleepingexplorer We should probably have well-known activists "delivering groceries" to random empty spaces just to create resource and morale-sapping diversions against ICE.

@LukefromDC for the record, as someone with an information privacy background we wholeheartedly endorse this advice. if an address is sensitive, do not search it in GPS, do not put it in your contact list, do not type it into a phone or computer at all. write it on paper.

and, yes, eat it if it comes to that.

@LukefromDC Just curious, where have you seen those reports?

My GUESS is they wait at grocery stores for specifc cars to appear

That seems plausible; admittedly, that's a much more reasonable reading of the OOP than mine.

Thanks

@nickapos @LukefromDC now?! Phone companies have been licking the federal boots pretty much since inception. It’s not even a conspiracy, they’re open about it.

@calcifer @LukefromDC Yeah cellular companies have always done this, but I had not heard so far that they could track people live by using data from Google or Apple Maps.
Using the cell towers is not as precise as using gps.
Also GPS is a passive service, so only via the map apps something like this can be done.

@kusuriya @nickapos @LukefromDC consider pitching your CV to some recruiters.

• Cut there is demand for anyone who doesn't instantly make PCs blow magic smoke and knows more than starting up Windows.

@LukefromDC
This is actually familiar. In germany we learn this in school. The nazis raided homes to get to hidden jewish families.

The movie inglorious basterds depicts this exact thing.

Maybe you need an equivalent to "the bear jew" and repeat the scene from the movie?

@kkarhan @nickapos @LukefromDC Well making PCs blow magic smoke ia my specialty but it comes with the territory of doing cybersecurity work!

@kusuriya @nickapos @LukefromDC Anything Cybersec is in high demand.

Seriously…

@kkarhan @kusuriya @LukefromDC Most European countries are also making immigration difficult. I am not saying it is not doable, and yeah Europe has so far resisted imitating US fully, but it is becoming more difficult by the day.
Canada is probably the easier option for a US person.

@nickapos @LukefromDC @kusuriya depends on one's personal case.

• AFAIK #Canada considers the #USA a "safe country of origin", but #Germany does not.
  • Either way, I'd recommend to seek non-asylum options first. Like the #OpportunityCard.

https://www.make-it-in-germany.com/en/visa-residence/opportunity-card/job-search

OFC this is #NotLegalAdvice and I'd recommend to seek advice first.

• @marcel and his colleagues may be able to check your options and eligibility.
  • Do inquire about availability tho first... Worst-case they may refer you to another, equally qualified spechalist...

@nickapos @LukefromDC @kusuriya as for job applications: I do have some recruiters in my organizer that are eager to find IT spechalists.

U.S. citizens can, according to @AuswaertigesAmt 's own Visa Navigator change their status post-entry.

• And for IT you only need 24 months of work experience within the last 60 months to qualify.
  • Again, #NotLegalAdvice…