Rights Groups Warn Against DHS's Use of Social Media Monitoring of Immigrants

Expand The Google app logo is seen on a smartphone in this picture illustration taken September 15, 2017. © 2017 Reuters Via Electronic Transmission The Honorable Chad F.Wolf Acting Secretary U.S. Department of Homeland Security Washington, D.C. 20528 November 19, 2019 Dear Acting Secretary Wolf: We are a group of 40 privacy, civil rights, civil liberties, human rights and immigrants’ rights organizations. We write to express our deep concern that the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is trampling on the fundamental human[1] and constitutional rights of freedom of speech and…

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