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President-elect Donald Trump will return to power next year with a raft of technological tools at his disposal that would help deliver his campaign promise of cracking down on immigration — among them, surveillance and artificial intelligence technology that the Biden administration already uses to help make crucial decisions in tracking, detaining and ultimately deporting immigrants lacking permanent legal status. While immigration officials have used the tech for years, an October letter from the Department of Homeland Security obtained exclusively by The Associated Press details how those tools — some of them powered by AI — help make life-altering decisions for immigrants, including whether they should be detained or surveilled. One algorithm, for example, ranks immigrants with a “Hurricane Score,” ranging from 1-5, to assess whether someone will “abscond” from the agency's supervision. The letter, sent by DHS Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer Eric Hysen to the immigrant rights group Just Futures Law, revealed that the score calculates the potential risk that an immigrant — with a pending case — will fail to check in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. The algorithm relies on several factors, he said, including an immigrant’s number of violations and length of time in the program, and whether the person has a travel document. Hysen wrote that ICE officers consider the score, among other information, when making decisions about an immigrant’s case. “The Hurricane Score does not make decisions on detention, deportation, or surveillance; instead, it is used to inform human decision-making,” Hysen wrote. Also included in the government’s tool kit is a mobile app called SmartLINK that uses facial matching and can track an immigrant’s specific location. Nearly 200,000 people without legal status who are in removal proceedings are enrolled in the Alternatives to Detention program, under which certain immigrants can live in the U.S. while their immigration cases are pending. In exchange, SmartLINK and GPS trackers used by ICE rigorously surveil them and their movements. The phone application draws on facial matching technology and geolocation data, which has been used before to find and arrest those using the app. Just Futures Law wrote to Hysen earlier this year, questioning the fairness of using an algorithm to assess whether someone is a flight risk and raising concerns over how much data SmartLINK collects. Such AI systems, which score or screen people, are used widely but remain largely unregulated even though some have been found to discriminate on race, gender or other protected traits. DHS said in an email that it is committed to ensuring that its use of AI is transparent and safeguards privacy and civil rights while avoiding biases. The agency said it is working to implement the Biden administration’s requirements on using AI , but Hysen said in his letter that security officials may waive those requirements for certain uses. Trump has publicly vowed to repeal Biden's AI policy when he returns to the White House in January. “DHS uses AI to assist our personnel in their work, but DHS does not use the outputs of AI systems as the sole basis for any law enforcement action or denial of benefits,” a spokesperson for DHS told the AP. Trump has not revealed how he plans to carry out his promised deportation of an estimated 11 million people living in the country illegally. Although he has proposed invoking wartime powers, as well as military involvement, the plan would face major logistical challenges — such as where to keep those who have been detained and how to find people spread across the country — that AI-powered surveillance tools could potentially address. Karoline Leavitt, a spokesperson for Trump, did not answer questions about how they plan to use DHS’ tech, but said in a statement that “President Trump will marshal every federal and state power necessary to institute the largest deportation operation” in American history. Over 100 civil society groups sent a letter on Friday urging the Office of Management and Budget to require DHS to comply with the Biden administration’s guidelines. OMB did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Just Futures Law’s executive director, Paromita Shah, said if immigrants are scored as flight risks, they are more likely to remain in detention, "limiting their ability to prepare a defense in their case in immigration court, which is already difficult enough as it is.” SmartLINK, part of the Intensive Supervision Appearance Program, is run by BI Inc., a subsidiary of the private prison company The GEO Group. The GEO Group also contracts with ICE to run detention centers. ICE is tight-lipped about how it uses SmartLINK’s location feature to find and arrest immigrants. Still, public records show that during Trump’s first term in 2018, Manassas, Virginia-based employees of BI Inc. relayed immigrants’ GPS locations to federal authorities, who then arrested over 40 people. In a report last year to address privacy issues and concerns, DHS said that the mobile app includes security features that “prohibit access to information on the participant’s mobile device, with the exception of location data points when the app is open.” But the report notes that there remains a risk that data collected from people "may be misused for unauthorized persistent monitoring.” Such information could also be stored in other ICE and DHS databases and used for other DHS mission purposes, the report said. On investor calls earlier this month, private prison companies were clear-eyed about the opportunities ahead. The GEO Group’s executive chairman George Christopher Zoley said that he expects the incoming Trump administration to “take a much more aggressive approach regarding border security as well as interior enforcement and to request additional funding from Congress to achieve these goals.” “In GEO’s ISAP program, we can scale up from the present 182,500 participants to several hundreds of thousands, or even millions of participants,” Zoley said. That same day, the head of another private prison company told investors he would be watching closely to see how the new administration may change immigrant monitoring programs. “It’s an opportunity for multiple vendors to engage ICE about the program going forward and think about creative and innovative solutions to not only get better outcomes, but also scale up the program as necessary,” Damon Hininger, CEO of the private prison company CoreCivic Inc. said on an earnings call. GEO did not respond to requests for comment. In a statement, CoreCivic said that it has played “a valued but limited role in America’s immigration system” for both Democrats and Republicans for over 40 years.
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Discover the stories of your interest Blockchain 5 Stories Cyber-safety 7 Stories Fintech 9 Stories E-comm 9 Stories ML 8 Stories Edtech 6 Stories TikTok has denied this, calling such concerns "speculative". What has the response to the ruling been? US attorney general Merrick Garland said the court’s decision stops China from “weaponising” TikTok to collect Americans’ data or covertly manipulate the content they consume to undermine national security. TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew reportedly said in an email to staff, "While today’s news is disappointing, rest assured we will continue the fight to protect free speech on our platform.” While civil liberties advocates have condemned the ruling for violating free speech, American content creators on the app are asking followers to follow them on other platforms like Instagram and Youtube. What happens now? 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When Ronny Chieng was writing the material for his new Netflix special “Love to Hate It” back in 2023, he included a few now prescient jokes about the MAGA movement. But back then, the idea that Donald Trump would somehow return to the White House wasn’t on anyone’s minds — so much so that he was advised to leave the jokes out. “And at that point, it felt irrelevant,” Chieng says. “In fact, I got a note back from a comic whom I respect, and they were like, ‘when you went into the MAGA stuff, I just felt like, it’s totally irrelevant.’ He wasn’t being mean. He was just giving some honest feedback. And I was like, ‘Yeah, I can see why you would say that.’ But I really believed it was something I wanted to say. So I left it in, and it kept developing. And then it became its own thing. And then, lo and behold, it became relevant again.” Chieng remains proud of his MAGA chunk, specifically because he feels it’s fair. “I’m kind of happy that if you feel that it’s relevant again, that means I think I did a decent job of making it pretty balanced,” he says. “It wasn’t too one sided, either way. I think people appreciated it not being too preachy, even if they agreed with me. “But the times when it is political, I feel like I’m being quite centrist,” he adds. “I am making fun of MAGA. Sometimes, that centrist point of view on the internet, people get really angry at me for having that point of view, making fun of MAGA even a little bit. And I’m like, if you knew I was on ‘ The Daily Show ,’ you wouldn’t be angry about that at all, because this is actually more centrist than what I’ve been doing for nine years... People think that if you make fun of them, you’re against their whole world view. I think that’s one of the messages of my special, that just because you or anyone or me disagrees with one thing doesn’t mean that the whole world is against you. There’s still ways to come together, even if you disagree with specific things.” Chieng wants to make it clear, however, that “Love to Hate It” — now available on Netflix, his third stand-up special for the streamer — is not overly political. Much of it centers on the deeply personal tale of what he and his wife experienced while trying to have a baby through the IVF process. The special has earned high marks from critics, and was even named best stand-up special of the year by the New York Times. “People are telling me this is more personal, which I appreciate, and it is very personal, but I always feel like every special I do is very personal,” he says. “I kind of write my comedy from personal experiences. I guess this is personal in a way that people can relate to, This one, I just wanted to have a killer, great comedy, front to back. I wanted it to be something that, every bit could be something I could open and close a show with. That’s the Patrice O’Neal kind of standard.” “Love to Hate It” was shot at the Hawai’i Theatre in Honolulu during a five-night run. The islands have become a bit of a home-away-from-home for Chieng after having lived there while shooting Disney+’s “Doogie Kamealoha, M.D.” “In Hawai’i, they have a natural appreciation and affiliation with live performing,” Chieng says. “They love it there. They love singing, they love dancing, live performance. And by extension, standup, especially when it’s from Asian people. Jo Koy is a good example.” Chieng also notes the history of Hawai’i comics like Rap Reiplinger, Andy Bumatai and Frank DeLima. “They have a history of these Hawaiian comedians there. I actually bought some vintage vinyl from these old school Hawaiian comics. They develop this almost their own style of nightclub performing, singing and stand-up comedy, performing at hotels. I’m very lucky that I felt a very strong connection with Hawai’i after filming there for two seasons. I felt like Hawai’i always returned the energy that I gave it. And so when I’m there, I feel hometown vibes.” Meanwhile, Chieng can currently be seen in Season 1 of the Hulu series “ Interior Chinatown ,” opposite Jimmy O. Yang and Chloe Bennet. The show, exec produced by Taika Waititi (who directed the first episode), is still awaiting word on a second season. “It’s fair to say we all want to do more,” Chieng says. “I hope people give it a chance. I think it’s worth telling people the surface level of the show, which is what you see in the trailer, is literally the very surface of the show. The real show is about these characters slowly becoming aware that they’re in a TV show. They’re questioning the reality of the show and why it’s made in this way. That, to me, is a very compelling idea. It’s the perfect meta show.” As 2025 begins, Chieng continues on “The Daily Show” as an integral part of the lineup — as the show’s correspondents all continue to take weekly turns at the desk as Jon Stewart remains the Monday-only host. “I think the format is actually working out quite well for everybody, because the division of responsibilities is perfect,” he says. So, is Chieng dreading what the return of a Trump administration might mean for his “Daily Show” workload? “People been asking me that, but, like, we had him for four years,” he says. Of course, that might have been “Trump lite” compared to the chaos this new administration is promising to sew. “He himself is saying that this is going to be more hardcore,” Chieng says. “But I don’t know. We had him for four years. Everything survived, with some exceptions. So that’s my guiding light, through just historical data. But I reserve the right to change my mind in January, depending on how stuff is going. As of right now, I don’t know. I’m still this naive, believing in American institutions. Maybe I’m just the only one left!”
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