App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country
5 days ago
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- ICE introduced an app called Mobile Companion that scans license plates and adds them to a database with billions of records.
- The app integrates with Motorola Solutions and Thomson Reuters, combining license plate data with personal information like driver licenses, credit headers, and voter registrations.
- Mobile Companion can predict future vehicle locations and supports facial recognition via Vigilant FaceSearch.
- ICE uses various data sources, including medical insurance claims and smartphone location data, for deportation efforts.
- Motorola’s license plate reading network includes Vigilant Solutions and DRN, which crowdsources scans from repo men.
- Thomson Reuters’ CLEAR product enhances investigations by combining public records with Motorola’s license plate data.
- Thomson Reuters has multimillion-dollar contracts with ICE, including a $5 million deal for license plate reader data.
- Criticism has been directed at Thomson Reuters for supplying data to ICE during family separations at the border.