I’m not sure whether this is appropriate for this community. If not -totally understand - it’s somewhere between politics and technology.

So we had the drop of the docs of the ice agents. With a quick scan, it looks like 1502 are listed… I haven’t gone in depth into what is there yet. [I’m not even sure if I have the real doc or etc, I basically did an xml query and wc -l.]

Right now it’s ICE, but it’s not just ICE and it’s not just USA.

— Hypothetically —

What would we want the perfect app to do?

Here are some ideas - all of these are completely obvious.

Get their photo. Do facial recognition, trained on mask/no-mask, make the protesters be able to point their phone at an officer and know their name, where they live, etc, everything.

We could have the app coordinate, using GPS, so we can track ICE officers across multiple users. One user sees agent Orange, another user sees agent Orange - provide real time visualizations of all of ice that people are pointing their phones at. (this doesn’t need to entirely depend on facial recognition - training on “does this guy look like this other guy” isn’t that hard - and we know the orientation of the phone, and sort-of GPS)

We can have a coordination - for instance everyone using the app / within a protected group - could know where everybody else was, (like a game) - coordinate a “front line” coordinate a vehicle blocking.

Of course, this app could be used to do entirely happy things as well, such as throw parties, track school groups, so dual use would apply. Maybe it would be named “SuperHappyGroupMonitor”

What I’m asking is - hypothetically, what would the best app be to support monitoring group gatherings.

I know a bunch of tech - but I don’t know all of it - perhaps y’all out there know other things that it could do which would be even better to support etc.