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In a redacted acquisition document obtained by the tech news site 404 Media, the immigration agency proposes entering into a contract to buy “all-in-one” tools from a company called PenLink that will allow agents to “compile, process, and validate billions of daily location signals from hundreds of millions of mobile devices.” The document also mentions payments for services involving “face detection,” “advanced face search,” and a “dark web data feed.”

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[–] PoopingCough@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Not that it seems to matter to them, but I'm pretty sure warrantless tracking via cell signal has been expressly deemed illegal by the courts.

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)
  1. This administration doesn't give a fuck about court precedence
  2. They are buying the data, not getting court orders for it. It's the loophole around due process

This data shouldn't even be sold by mobile carriers in the first place, but ~~capitalism~~ greed must steamroll along.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Capitalism is just greed as government in our current iteration of it

[–] bigboitricky@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Most of this has been deemed as such :/