A liberal-leaning think tank is suing the Biden administration to reveal the government’s social media surveillance tools and the extent of online spying on Americans.
The New York-based Brennan Center sued the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement for refusing to hand over records about its use of data analytics products that scour the internet.
“The agency’s expanded use of social media monitoring tools will heighten existing risks to privacy and to freedom of speech, expression, and association, affecting Americans, immigrants, and foreign travelers while making scant contributions to national security,” the Brennan Center’s Rachel Levinson-Waldman and José Guillermo Gutiérrez said in a statement posted on the center’s website.