ICE Agents Are ‘Doxing’ Themselves

Last week, a website called ICE List went viral aft its creators said that they had received what they described arsenic a leak of idiosyncratic accusation astir about 4,500 Department of Homeland Security employees. However, a WIRED investigation of the tract recovered that the database relies heavy connected accusation that evident DHS employees person posted publically online themselves. This comes astatine a clip erstwhile DHS has characterized reporting connected oregon publicizing the individuality of ICE officers arsenic “doxing” and has threatened to prosecute perceived offenders to the fullest grade of the law.

ICE List operates arsenic a crowdsourced wiki maintained by volunteers, who person discretion implicit who is added and what is marked arsenic “verified.” Like Wikipedia, with which it has nary affiliation, ICE List has class pages that diagnostic a nexus to each leafage included successful that category. Not everyone connected the database is an ICE worker oregon adjacent affiliated with a national agency; erstwhile Proud Boys person Enrique Tarrio, for example, whom DHS told the Associated Press is not an ICE agent, is included successful the wiki’s “Agents” category. On his existent page, his “Agency” is listed arsenic “N/A” and his “Role” is listed arsenic “Propagandist; Agitator.” (Tarrio posted connected X that helium wished helium worked for ICE, but called the ICE List leafage disinformation.)

Dominick Skinner, the proprietor of ICE List, says helium does not judge that what ICE List does is doxing. ICE List doesn’t station the location addresses of identified agents, and says connected its About leafage that “false submissions, harassment, oregon attempts to misuse the level volition beryllium removed.”

“If this were doxing, past we dox ourselves by simply being contiguous successful online environments,” Skinner says, “which is conscionable alternatively ridiculous.”

WIRED reviewed individuals’ pages that were included successful the “Agents” class connected ICE List arsenic of January 22. Of the 1,580 pages, astir 90 percent notation LinkedIn arsenic a root of information, though immoderate of the links cited present look to beryllium broken, and not each of the links enactment claims made connected the wiki. (Someone listed arsenic “active” connected ICE List may, for example, person a LinkedIn depicting them arsenic a erstwhile ineligible advisor for ICE. On its About page, ICE List says that “errors whitethorn occur.”) Other linked profiles deficiency photos and don’t look to beryllium precise active. Some of the links, however, look to lucifer national migration agents who person antecedently been named successful authoritative ICE property releases and tribunal records.

Like different LinkedIn users, those who self-identify arsenic ICE deportation officers and different types of DHS employees are successful galore cases posting New Year’s resolutions, reacting to meandering motivational posts astir the meaning of leadership, and letting radical cognize they’re #opentowork.

The DHS did not respond to requests for comment.

Some individuals’ pages connected the ICE List wiki mention OpenPayrolls, a searchable database of nationalist employees’ salaries that includes immoderate ICE employees, and SignalHire, a information broker that specializes successful pb generation, arsenic sources of information.

A spokesperson for OpenPayrolls wrote successful an email that it has nary affiliation with ICE List and that the ICE-related payroll records connected its tract were released by the US Office of Personnel Management successful effect to a Freedom of Information Act request. The spokesperson besides said, “To date, we person not received outreach from immoderate authorities bureau expressing concerns regarding the show of nationalist records connected our transparency website.”

SignalHire did not respond to a petition for comment, but it besides includes nonstop links to the LinkedIn profiles of radical representing themselves arsenic ICE officers connected its website.