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ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day
Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has bought access to a surveillance tool that is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data from hundreds of millions of mobile phones, according to ICE documents reviewed by 404 Media.
The documents explicitly show that ICE is choosing this product over others offered by the contractor's competitors because it gives ICE essentially an "all-in-one" tool for searching both masses of location data and information taken from social media. The documents also show that ICE is planning to once again use location data remotely harvested from peoples' smartphones after previously saying it had stopped the practice.
Surveillance contractors around the world create massive datasets of phones', and by extension people's movements, and then sell access to the data to government agencies. In turn, U.S. agencies have used these tools without a warrant or court order.
"The Biden Administration shut down DHS's location data purchases after an inspector general found that DHS had broken the law. Every American should be concerned that [the current administration's] hand-picked security force is once again buying and using location data without a warrant," Senator Ron Wyden told 404 Media in a statement.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by r1348 on Friday October 03, @05:59PM (2 children)
People, I'm just saying, start organizing resistance cells, because this is heading in a very dark direction.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by janrinok on Friday October 03, @07:27PM
You have provided sound advice.
I suggested that people start taking action in March and was booed off the stage.
Only now are some people (and not all) beginning to see what is happening - and it is already too late.
[nostyle RIP 06 May 2025]
(Score: 2) by https on Sunday October 05, @06:55AM
Heading? HEADING? The back of the "Welcome to Nazi America" sign has gotten very small in your rear view mirror. You're in it. Bear witness.
And yes, I used the term Nazi. Deliberately, because the word has a meaning [medium.com].
Offended and laughing about it.