New Documents Reveal the Extent of Federal Location Surveillance
The Department of Homeland Security has collected reams of location data from a private vendor in order to track people across the United States.
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The Department of Homeland Security has collected reams of location data from a private vendor in order to track people across the United States.
According to a recent report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), data brokers harvest location data from mobile apps and then sell it to government agencies including state and local law enforcement, ICE, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense.
Over the past few years, data brokers and federal military, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies have formed a vast, secretive partnership to surveil the movements of millions of people. Many of the mobile apps on our cell phones track our movements with great precision and frequency. Data...