Surveillance

Correlating Databases and their consolidation seem to be at the root of instruments like SIR,  starting with Aadhar linking with PAN, Births & Death Registration. Will this also happen with the Census, which has been delayed .  I was reading this article which made me COLD.. - https://jacobin.com/2026/02/democrats-ice-killings-congress-reforms  (check) sprawling domestic surveillance program.  using private sector data brokers that let it effectively carry out warrantless surveillance and build dossiers on almost every adult in the country, immigrant and citizen alike. (were) they were using that surveillance to target journalists, activists, protesters, and immigration attorneys exercising their constitutional rights ?. 
  using its new money to invest even more heavily in a combination of facial recognition technology, automatic license plate readers, fake cell phone towers to spy on phones, phone location data, social media surveillance, and spyware and phone-hacking software for gaining entry into people’s phones. This is alongside its newly obtained permission to draw on highly sensitive personal data held by government agencies   
   long-standing joint training with notoriously abusive Israeli forces, whose focus is on combating terrorism — an increasingly meaningless term that the Trump administration is now redefining to mean protesters and legal observers.   
  Sprawling domestic spying programs, databases of dissidents, increasing targeting of and violence toward citizens, a system of black sites on home soil — this is all profoundly abnormal and strange for an agency tasked with enforcing immigration law, and there is no other country in the world whose equivalent to ICE is doing it.