How the US' ICE became a domestic surveillance agency
05-15-2022, 06:44 AM (This post was last modified: 05-15-2022, 06:46 AM by robkelk.)
05-15-2022, 06:44 AM (This post was last modified: 05-15-2022, 06:46 AM by robkelk.)
Full report at americandragnet.org. Summary story on The Register.
From the Executive Summary of the report:
And almost all of that was done without a warrant.
(I was not aware that Thomson Reuters was in the data-broker business... but they're one of the USA's Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency's data sources.)
From the Executive Summary of the report:
- ICE has scanned the driver’s license photos of 1 in 3 adults.
- ICE has access to the driver’s license data of 3 in 4 adults.
- ICE tracks the movements of drivers in cities home to 3 in 4 adults.
- ICE could locate 3 in 4 adults through their utility records.
And almost all of that was done without a warrant.
(I was not aware that Thomson Reuters was in the data-broker business... but they're one of the USA's Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency's data sources.)
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But words can break your heart.
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