70 US lawmakers demand probe into I#CE's data purchases
ICE illegally purchased #Americans' location data without first obtaining #warrants.
#DHS #inspectorgeneral also found serious privacy oversteps - including employees sharing accounts and passwords for phone-tracking databases, supervisors failing to request or review audit logs to detect patterns of abuse, and in one instance, a DHS employee abusing this #phone #location data to track coworkers.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/03/us_lawmakers_ice_data_purchases/
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