WASHINGTON (March 3, 2026) – ICE has made use of numerous surveillance tools, including mobile location tracking, cell phone location, telephone hacking, social media monitoring, facial recognition, eyeball iris scanning, and vehicle license plate readers. While the initial aim of these tools were geared towards immigration enforcement, ICE has expanded its surveillance efforts to include critics and protesters.
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, professor of law at the George Washington University Law School, is a national expert on predictive policing, big data surveillance, and the Fourth Amendment. Ferguson, a former public defender and author of Your Data Will Be Used Against You (2026), can speak to ICE’s use of these tools, the legality of these tracking efforts, and what this escalation means for privacy, protest, and criminal prosecution.
To schedule an interview with Ferguson, contact Claire Sabin at claire [dot] sabin
gwu [dot] edu (claire[dot]sabin[at]gwu[dot]edu).
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