Happy Tuesday! Here’s your Tuesday Tech Drop, the week’s top stories from the intersection of technology and politics. ICE gives Home Depot investors goosebumps A group of Home Depot investors has raised concerns about the company’s work with a surveillance firm after a news report said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement used data acquired by the firm to aid Trump’s increasingly unpopular anti-immigrant crackdown. Reuters reported last week that some investors, spearheaded by a group that advocates for sustainability, want a review of the company’s partnership with Flock Safety, which conducts anti-fraud and security measures for corporations, after 404 Media reported in May that local law enforcement agencies provided Flock’s license plate data to federal immigration officers. The investors want to understand Flock’s involvement with Home Depot for “assessment of privacy and civil rights risks, including discrimination or wrongful detention from misuse of customer data.” They say the practices “may expose the Company to financial and legal risks, including potential data breaches and enforcement of evolving state privacy laws.” Home Depot, whose locations the Trump administration has targeted in its anti-immigrant crackdown, declined to comment on whether it would end its partnership with Flock Safety but told Reuters, “The company does not grant access to its license-plate readers to federal law enforcement.” Read the Reuters report here. Growing Grok backlash Elon Musk’s social media artificial intelligence chatbot continues to face a backlash over a feature Musk and his team recently enabled that allowed X users to generate nonconsensual pornographic images,…
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