Here's a List of Companies and their Software ICE is Using to Track and Kill Us

Somehow Washington Post reporters snuck this information through Jeff Bezos' capitulation machine

Intrepid reporters Eva Dou, Artur Galocha, and Kevin Schaul have somehow slipped through the Gordian knot that is now right-wing oligarch Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post’s obsequious editorial policies to present a list of software companies and their surveillance software that ICE is using to hunt down and murder or kidnap Americans, including five-year-old children.¹ The link to the article is in the footnotes.²

I don’t have a subscription to the Post, but luckily, I do have an extension that turns off JavaScript, so I was able to access this info for you and compile the list from the article. I hope the reporters don’t mind, but if they do, hey, too bad. They still get street cred that I hope furthers their careers.

Without further ado, let’s take a look. The descriptions are quoted from the Washington Post article unless they are not in quote blocks that look like this and are unattributed:

This is a quote block.

Facial recognition

Facial and eye recognition software is as good as a fingerprint, and the government is busy collecting it during this phase of the authoritarian buildup.

NEC Corporation of America | NEC

In this era of authoritarianism, NEC’s website is loudly proclaiming its allegiance to the surveillance state:³

Introducing the all-new cloud-based Integrated Biometric Workspace (IBW), powered by the Integra-ID platform!

Oh, yay.

Mobile Fortify

This product from NEC…

…enables ICE officers to immediately compare phone scans of faces and fingerprints they encounter in the field against databases containing individuals’ immigration status and other biographical information.

Well done, NEC. I hope everyone at your company gets a free round of golf from the Predator-in-Chief at Mar-a-Lago. And you have to listen to him talk for three hours.

BI2 Technologies

This company sold ICE software that allows ICE goons to read your eye for identification purposes, which is just as good as a fingerprint. The tech works “within seconds from a distance of 15 inches.”

Clearview AI

This company sold ICE facial recognition software that government agencies at one time promised to avoid for privacy reasons. That died last September when ICE signed a new $3.75 million contract with Clearview AI.

Some U.S. citizens have reported having their faces checked in real time by ICE or Customs and Border Protection. “He used facial recognition with another system and it confirmed I was a citizen. They then let me go,” Bloomington, Minnesota, resident Julio Garcia said in a court declaration, describing how immigration agents detained him on Jan. 9.

License plate readers

Modern license plate reader technology can read license plates on cars moving at high speeds and at night. You can feel pretty confident that ICE knew more about Renée Nicole Good than most of us realize before they murdered her.

Motorola Solutions

According to Motorola:⁴

Our portfolio provides you with the tools to capture accurate license plate recognition data, but more importantly, empowers your team to use those detections to increase officer awareness, patrol productivity and investigative efficiency.

ICE took one look at this tech and said, “Count us in!”

Flock Safety® Solutions

According to the company’s advertising:⁵

Capture Every License Plate. See Flock Safety In Action — Get Real Evidence Day Or Night. Advanced Night Vision Technology Captures Clear HD Images.

Flock claims they don’t work directly with ICE. The Washington Post report says that ICE uses their data by integrating with local police departments, many of which do use the tech.

Thomson Reuters

This company maintains a database of license plates that ICE can tap into at any time.

Per the Post article, their data can show “when an individual registered at one address regularly parks his or her car at another location.”

Or when a car is parked at a protest. Just saying.

Cellphone location

This type of software mimics cell phone towers to acquire your phone’s location if you’re near a device that is equipped with the software.

L3Harris

This company makes a product they appropriately call Stingrays. These devices “masquerade as cell towers and trick nearby cellphones to connect, allowing ICE officers goons to track a phone’s location in real time,” according to the Post article.

The devices, often mounted atop vehicles, are used in two ways. If officers already know the identifying number of the target phone, they can use the cell-site simulator to look for it. They also can scan for all cellphones in the area.

ICE agents must obtain a search warrant from a judge before deploying a Stingray from suppliers like L3Harris, though ICE guidelines name several emergency exceptions, such as “the need to protect human life or avert serious injury,” being in “hot pursuit of a fleeing felon” or “to prevent the escape of a suspect or convicted felon from justice.”

In other words, ICE just does whatever the hell they want.

Phone location databases

You knew these existed, right?

The Post article notes that the Supreme Court ruled in the 2018 case Carpenter v. United States that the government can’t acquire phone location data from phone companies without a warrant. The government got around this little problem by purchasing the data from data brokers who buy the info from phone app software developers.

This means you can add almost any phone app software developer that uses your location to this list of companies assisting ICE.

Penlink Security

This company makes software that enables ICE goons to “‘geofence’ a specific area and track all the phones within it.” This means that they can isolate an area, then track all the phones there.

Digital forensics

Per the Washington Post article:

ICE has a deep trove of digital forensics tools that allow it to hack into locked phones and computers, recover deleted files and read information in encrypted chats. These powerful tools traditionally were limited to the agency’s investigations into terrorism, child smuggling and other serious transnational crimes, but during the second Trump administration regime, leadership has ordered the shift of investigative resources across the agency toward the deportation drive.

Paragon Solutions

This is a secretive Israeli company that “makes spyware that can hack into phones remotely.”

ICE had been trying to purchase the Paragon software for some time, but the Biden administration froze the order in 2024 to review whether it complied with an executive order against federal agents using spyware with foreign ties that could be a threat to the U.S. government. The freeze was reversed last year.

Cellebrite

This company creates software that:

Allows agents to access the contents of locked phones it has seized and automatically sort the data.

Finaldata

This company says it specializes in developing “various products for mobile forensics, computer forensics, and data recovery.” This includes recovering deleted data from devices.⁶

Drone Technology

ICE is investing massively in drone tech in the coming year if they get the funding one or two Democrats are trying feebly to stop during this latest government shutdown fiasco.

Skydio

This San Mateo, California, company offers a plethora of drones to law enforcement and other security agencies.

X10D

According to the company, the X10D “delivers EW resilience and survivability on the toughest battlefields in the world. Dual-use innovation delivers the best sensors on a drone this size piloted by the most advanced AI in the sky, ready to scale.”⁷

I don’t know what “EW resilience” means, but I can imagine it isn’t good for Americans darker than an eggshell Pantone trying to go out for a loaf of bread.

Screenshot from Skydio website

More from the company:

Achieve mission success with the ability to:

• Dynamically switch channels with a powerful multiband radio

• Increase survivability in GNSS-denied or spoofed environments with Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO) at high altitudes up to several kilometers

• Navigate and return autonomously in GPS-denied environments with Anchor Points, using vision-based reference placement on the map

Screenshot from Skydio website

The current budget proposal is asking for billions more so that ICE can have one of these things in every neighborhood in the country at a moment’s notice.

These drones are already being used against you.

Right here. Wherever you are. Right now.

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI)

This company is a developer of military-grade drone weapons.

MQ-9 Predator

A weaponized drone with a 3850 pound (1746 kilogram) bomb payload that can operate at 50000 feet.⁸

U.S. Customs and Border Protection flew these during the Battle for Los Angeles last summer. Nobody is saying what they were used for, but they can track you from 40 miles away.

According to the Post article:

General Atomics spokesman C. Mark Brinkley said the baseline MQ-9A drones include a high-definition camera system with infrared sensing and radar that can see through clouds, rain or fog.

The Federal Aviation Administration instituted a ban on third parties flying drones within 3,000 feet of ICE operations, giving ICE sole authority to monitor raids aerially.

The name of this product, of course, speaks for itself.

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Yes, my friends, these are your tax dollars hard at work. We are all paying our government to kidnap and murder people, especially people of color.

Have a nice day.

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We can make this a community effort. If you know other companies helping ICE, say so in a comment. I trust, but verify. I'm currently looking into reports that the parent company of Lexis/Nexis is involved, which makes sense because I always hear about Lexis on police procedural TV shows! I'll look into it and add it once confirmed.

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And hey, even restacking helps fund me indirectly…

Footnotes

1. Liam is ill, thanks to ICE’s attempt to kidnap him. More here:

HuffPost. “5-Year-Old in ICE Detention Is Sick, Says Top School Official,” January 28, 2026. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-conejo-ramos-sick-ice-detention_n_696fd209e4b0559a85915488?a68.

2. Dou, Eva. “The Powerful Tools in ICE’s Arsenal to Track Suspects — and Protesters.” The Washington Post, January 29, 2026.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2026/ice-surveillance-immigrants-protesters

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3. NEC. “NEC Corporation of America,” 2026. https://www.necam.com/en_US/index.html.

4. Motorolasolutions.com. “License Plate Recognition - Motorola Solutions,” 2022. https://www.motorolasolutions.com/en_us/video-security-access-control/license-plate-recognition-camera-systems.html.

5. Flocksafety.com. “Book a Demo - Short Form Paid,” 2026. https://www.flocksafety.com/book-a-demo-short-form-paid

6. “FINALDATA,” Finaldata.com, 2022,

7. Skydio.com. “Skydio X10D,” 2026. https://www.skydio.com/x10d.

8. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. “MQ-9A Reaper (Predator B),” 2023. https://www.ga-asi.com/remotely-piloted-aircraft/mq-9a.

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