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Maryland’s Army Scientist and the ICE-Tracking Apps: Why Nicholas Waytowich Must Be Fired
Nicholas Waytowich, a senior Army scientist in Maryland, is not only the founder of the Red Dot app—an ICE-tracking tool marketed as “community safety”—but also a code contributor to a second app, ICE Block. Together, these projects form a disturbing pattern: a taxpayer-funded scientist building technology that helps illegal immigrants evade federal law enforcement and potentially endangers ICE agents. Maryland’s silence on this conflict of interest speaks volumes.