Electronic Frontier FoundationJan 14
“There’s this veneer of respect for privacy that is painted over all of this data aggregation and consolidation,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton told @TexasObserver. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-police-invest-tangles-sheriff-surveillance/
Texas Police Invested Millions in a Shadowy Phone-Tracking Software. They Won’t Say How They’ve Used It.

One sheriff who leads an anti-smuggling task force says the software helps “develop leads to eventually obtain probable cause.” Civil liberties experts say its use violates constitutional rights.

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EFF intervened in a lawsuit last year to force government contractor Pen-Link to disclose the prices and descriptions of surveillance products that it sold to a local California Sheriff's office. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/victory-pen-links-police-tools-are-not-secret
Victory! Pen-Link's Police Tools Are Not Secret

The records disclosed in the settlement show that in late 2023, the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office paid $180,000 for a two-year subscription to the Tangles “Web Intelligence Platform,” which is a Cobwebs Technologies product that allows the Sheriff to monitor online activity.

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