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Brittany Friedman, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California

We study mass surveillance for social control, and we see Trump laying the groundwork to ‘contain’ people of color and immigrants

Black and Latino communities are disproportionately affected by mass surveillance, studies show. Vicente Méndez/Getty Images

President Donald Trump has vowed to target his political enemies, and experts have warned that he could weaponize U.S. intelligence agencies to conduct mass surveillance on his targets.

Mass surveillance is the widespread monitoring of civilians. Governments typically target specific groups – such as religious minorities, certain races or ethnicities, or migrants – for surveillance and use the information gathered to “contain” these populations, for example by arresting and imprisoning people.

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