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ICE Is Buying a Tool to Track Phones, Without Warrants

16 hours ago
  • #privacy
  • #ICE
  • #surveillance
  • ICE is purchasing a surveillance tool from PenLink to track hundreds of millions of phones without warrants.
  • The tool merges location data with social media monitoring, enabling unprecedented tracking and analysis.
  • This reverses Biden-era curbs on warrantless location tracking and expands ICE's surveillance capabilities.
  • PenLink has a history with ICE, including a $2.4 million contract in 2018 for telecommunications analysis.
  • Trump's administration is normalizing and expanding surveillance, bypassing judicial oversight.
  • The surveillance tools can locate individuals within a city block and construct detailed social graphs.
  • ICE has previously misused similar systems, such as falsely identifying toddlers as gang members.
  • The surveillance state is being built with tools like Graphite spyware, Clearview AI, and Palantir's systems.
  • The system mirrors Russia's surveillance state, starting with marginalized groups and expanding to political control.
  • Actions to counter this include spreading awareness, contacting representatives, supporting watchdog groups, and securing devices.