ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day
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.
#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.
In October 2023, the Department of Homeland Security (#DHS) Inspector General published a report that found ICE, #CBP, and the Secret Service all broke the law when using location data harvested from phones. The oversight body found that those DHS components did not have sufficient policies and procedures in place to ensure that the location data was used appropriately.
In one case, a #CBP official used the #technology to track the location of #coworkers, the report said.
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