Over the past decade new breakthroughs in automated technologies have led to a multiplication of modes of containment through technologies such as electronic ankle monitors, facial recognition, iris scan technology and other identification devices that sustain modes of differential exploitation (Jacobsen 2015; Pallister-Wilkins 2016; Andersson 2018; Mezzadra, Neilson, 2019; Aradau, Tazzioli, 2020; Byler and Sanchez Boe 2020; Sanchez Boe & Mainsah 2022; Byler 2022). Ethnic or religious groups, illegalized migrants or criminalized citizens are increasingly kept in situations of protracted captivity, and digital technology incorporated in governance to control and confine and to extract value and data from them. While most techniques to identify individuals were developed and managed by civil servants up until recently, tech companies today compile unprecedented amounts of data, while rapidly developing increasingly sophisticated software that can process them, with little or no consent or oversight, and with for-profit objectives. Over two days in June 2023, this combined writing workshop, public keynote & panel discussion and open Design Friction workshop aims to gather researchers and practitioners who contribute to the public debate and social change in the fields of citizenship, confinement and immigration control, that are rapidly transformed by the deployment of digital technologies.