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.

🌐 https://archive.ph/WFsNN

🌐https://www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-tool-that-tracks-locations-of-hundreds-of-millions-of-phones-every-day/

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🚨 @Reddit suspended my account without reason. No rules broken. No support response. Even @RedditHelp account is suspended!

This is how you treat your users?

I demand a clear explanation.

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"Pro-Palestine protesters disrupt tech conference in New York City" [ ± 1min]
by MiddleEastEye

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GdzhjspdTsk

Quote by MEE:
"Mar 5, 2024
“I refuse to build technology that powers genocide.”
A Pro-Palestine Google Cloud engineer disrupted Barak Regev, Google Israel managing director During a tech conference held in New York City.
The worker protested Project Nimbus, a contract to sell technology that could be used to survey and harm Palestinians to the Israeli military and government.
Soon after, another protester disrupted Regev by saying, “Google is complicit in Israeli genocide.”

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Revise Legal Frameworks to Address Tech-Abuse and Stalking in Domestic Violence Cases
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