Soccer Fans, You’re Being Watched
More than 5 million fans are expected to attend the 2026 FIFA World Cup taking place this summer across 16 venues in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The stakes are high—and not merely on the pitch.
Experts have warned that heightened terrorism concerns linked to the war in Iran could be used by the Trump administration to justify the deployment of invasive surveillance technologies without adequate safeguards. Moreover, there are concerns that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which has an array of advanced surveillance technologies in its arsenal—from face recognition to spyware—could carry out aggressive immigration enforcement during the tournament.
Human Rights Watch, in turn, has urged FIFA to seek an “ICE truce” for the duration of the event, even as ICE’s eventual role remains uncertain.
“Security is often used as an excuse for agendas that have nothing to do with security at all—and in the Trump administration,...
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