404 MediaSep 30, 2025

BREAKING: 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.

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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.

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Just remembering all those tech fans from the 2010s when privacy fans started complaining about data leakage/harvesting in apps and devices: "You're worrying too much, when would an authoritarian government ever get into power? It could never happen here."

Sep 30, 2025 at 10:07pmWeb