This is the exact same thing that happened with J6 “sedition hunters” — only then, the libs loved it.
Now conservatives are doing the same thing.
When a protester was caught on video in January at a New York rally against Israel, only her eyes were visible between a mask and headscarf. But days later, photos of her entire face, along with her name and employer, were circulated online.
“Months of them hiding their faces went down the drain!” a fledgling technology company boasted in a social media post, claiming its facial-recognition tool had identified the woman despite the coverings.
She was anything but a lone target. The same software was also used to review images taken during months of pro-Palestinian marches at US colleges. A right-wing Jewish group said some people identified with the tool were on a list of names it submitted to President Donald Trump’s administration, urging that they be deported in accordance with his call for the expulsion of foreign students who participated in “pro-jihadist” protests.
Other pro-Israel groups have enlisted help from supporters on campuses, urging them to report foreign students who participated in protests against the war in Gaza to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency.
……..Immigration officers also detained a Tufts University student from Turkey outside Boston this week, and Trump and other officials have said that more arrests of international students are coming.
………Some groups pushing for deportations say their focus is on students whose actions go beyond marching in protests, to those taking over campus buildings and inciting violence against Jewish students.
“If you’re here, right, on a student visa causing civil unrest … assaulting people on the streets, chanting for people’s death, why the heck did you come to this country?” said Eliyahu Hawila, a software engineer who built the tool designed to identify masked protesters and outed the woman at the January rally.
He has forwarded protesters’ names to groups pressing for them to be deported, disciplined, fired or otherwise punished.
The corrupt FBI was paying so-called ‘sedition hunters’ to identify people who were at the Capitol on Jan 6. . Citizens who protested peacefully or simply stood outside the capitol were caught in the Stasi dragnet.
After President Trump was elected in 2024, they ran and went into hide mode.
Maybe some of them will get caught in the new dragnet. That would be poetic justice.