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I.e. the inference is that ICE is unconstitutionally tracking and assembling lists of protestors exercising their First Amendment rights.

> "A post-scan analysis confirmed the detection of 574 IMSI-exposing messages."

That's roughly 574 unique protestors, give or take.

Full-on autocratic tyranny—this is also what Putin's oligarchs did to Ukranians at the Maidan Protests, in Kyiv in 2014. Used IMSI-catchers to assemble lists of everyone present, and intimidate them.

https://slate.com/technology/2014/01/ukraine-texting-euromai... ("How Did Ukraine’s Government Text Threats to Kiev’s EuroMaidan Protesters?" (2014)).

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