Cyber Insider: “A Mozilla-led campaign is calling on major tech platforms to block surveillance firm ShadowDragon from scraping user data from over 200 websites — including Reddit, Tinder, Duolingo, and Etsy — to support U.S. government surveillance programs, especially those run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The controversy centers on ShadowDragon’s flagship tool, SocialNet, which aggregates publicly available data across a vast web of online services to map individuals’ movements, behaviors, and social connections. According to journalist Joseph Cox, who broke the story for 404 Media on March 12, 2025, the company provides its services to multiple federal agencies — including ICE, the DEA, and the U.S. Army — enabling analysts to link seemingly benign data points into detailed profiles of individuals, often without oversight or user knowledge. ShadowDragon’s SocialNet works by performing federated searches on platforms such as LinkedIn, Strava, GoFundMe, Substack, and Discord, correlating data like language-learning habits, job histories, fitness routes, online reviews, and even protest-related speech to identify users, their locations, and affiliations. While the data is technically public, Mozilla argues that such aggregation transforms casual digital activity into invasive surveillance, disproportionately affecting immigrants, activists, and other vulnerable groups. The Mozilla Foundation, known for its advocacy for digital privacy and open-source software, responded with an aggressive campaign aimed at 30 high-profile tech platforms. These include Amazon, Google, Meta, Twitter/X, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat, and GitHub, among others — chosen based on their size, user base, and the sensitivity of the data they handle. Mozilla is demanding that these companies take three core actions…”