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Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media [no paywall]: “A social media and phone surveillance system ICE bought access to is designed to monitor a city neighborhood or block for mobile phones, track the movements of those devices and their owners over time, and follow them from their places of work to home or other locations, according to material that describes how the system works obtained by 404 Media.
Commercial location data, in this case acquired from hundreds of millions of phones via a company called Penlink, can be queried without a warrant, according to an internal ICE legal analysis shared with 404 Media.
The purchase comes squarely during ICE’s mass deportation effortand continued crackdown on protected speech, alarming civil liberties experts and raising questions on what exactly ICE will use the surveillance system for. “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.
This granular location information paints a detailed picture of who we are, where we go, and who we spend time with,” Nathan Freed Wessler, deputy project director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, told 404 Media. This week, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) started deploying as many as 2,000 officers to Minneapolis, including from ICE’s deportation arm.
On Wednesday, an ICE official repeatedly shot and killed a woman, Renee Nicole Good, 37, when she was turning around her car. In September, 404 Media reported on ICE’s planned purchase of the technology, consisting of two Penlink products called Tangles and Webloc. 404 Media has now obtained material that explains in greater detail how the system works…”