ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods

4 months ago

ICE purchased a social media and phone surveillance system to monitor neighborhoods and track movements of devices and owners over time.
The system uses commercial location data from Penlink, sourced from hundreds of millions of phones, and can be queried without a warrant.
The purchase coincides with ICE's mass deportation efforts and crackdown on protected speech, raising civil liberties concerns.
Civil liberties experts warn the system poses a threat due to its ability to reveal detailed personal movement patterns and associations.

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