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ICE's New Surveillance Tool Sparks Privacy Concerns

10/3/2025

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The Department of Homeland Security has acquired a PenLink surveillance tool enabling ICE to access billions of mobile location data points daily.
The tool includes forensic and predictive analytics, raising concerns about monitoring sensitive locations such as abortion clinics.
ICE's purchase contradicts its January 2024 commitment to stop buying commercial telemetry data, signaling ongoing privacy policy violations.

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Story summary

The Department of Homeland Security has acquired a PenLink surveillance tool enabling ICE to access billions of mobile location data points daily.
The tool includes forensic and predictive analytics, raising concerns about monitoring sensitive locations such as abortion clinics.
ICE's purchase contradicts its January 2024 commitment to stop buying commercial telemetry data, signaling ongoing privacy policy violations.