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ICE Resumes Controversial Use of Mobile Location Data

10/1/2025

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Story summary

ICE acquired a surveillance tool with daily updates on billions of mobile location data points.
ICE documents show tool's search capabilities, including social media data.
Agency plans to resume using harvested smartphone location data.
Surveillance contractors compile datasets on phone movements and sell them to government agencies.
Senator Ron Wyden criticized the Biden Administration's halt on location-data purchases.

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Story summary

ICE acquired a surveillance tool with daily updates on billions of mobile location data points.
ICE documents show tool's search capabilities, including social media data.
Agency plans to resume using harvested smartphone location data.
Surveillance contractors compile datasets on phone movements and sell them to government agencies.
Senator Ron Wyden criticized the Biden Administration's halt on location-data purchases.