ICE to Buy Tool That Tracks Locations of Hundreds Millions of Phones Every Day
12 hours ago
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- ICE purchased a surveillance tool with daily updates of billions of location data points from hundreds of millions of mobile phones.
- The tool offers ICE an 'all-in-one' solution for searching location data and social media information, chosen over competitors' products.
- ICE plans to resume using smartphone location data after previously halting the practice.
- Surveillance contractors compile massive datasets of phone movements and sell access to government agencies, often without warrants.
- Senator Ron Wyden criticized the Biden Administration for allowing ICE to resume warrantless location data purchases, citing past legal violations.