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How does ICE track people??? (lemmy.4d2.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago by crimes_of_ICE@lemmy.4d2.org to c/acab@quokk.au

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.4d2.org/post/2705362

Hi everyone,

Share what you know about how ICE identifies and tracks people - MIDM (Man in the middle attacks) to intercept cell traffic, scraping social media, etc.

Also other surveillance stuff they use.

It would be nice if everyone shares what they know with each other so we can build a larger knowledge base :)

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Mostly it seems like they're buying up data from "data brokers", where you fb, insta, tiktok, google, etc.. data is just.. straight up sold. You just buy it. They don't do any of the scraping themselves.

Beyond that there are services which collate billions of MAC addresses via cell towers, which is sometimes pseudo anonymized, sometimes not so much. Again, these are just API's you can pay for access to. Granted, they are in the range of 100k+ per month, but its just there. You can just buy it.

Companies like palantir use these to build profiles, and then market tools and services, dashboards, searches, viewers, etc..

So like, this isnt a spy agency. Its a CHUD agency. These guys are just dickless meatheads who'se cholesterol and T is so jacked they can't mantain an erection from eating nothing but atlas deer meat or whatever other shit the JRE is pedaling that week: ICE aren't technologists.

They're just vacuuming up data that people are providing, albeit largely unknowingly, willingly. People don't think of FB posts as PII. They don't realize their position is being tracked and monitored in real time.