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DHS and ICE purchased vast quantities of cellphone location data: ACLU

By Christopher Hutton
Published July 18, 2022 3:42pm ET
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DHS and ICE purchased vast quantities of cellphone location data: ACLU
Newly released documents reveal that the Department of Homeland Security has extensive access to people’s cellphone location data. Agents from Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement had access to 336,000 location points via data harvested from hundreds of millions of mobile devices, according to documents released by the American Civil Liberties Union […]

Newly released documents reveal that the Department of Homeland Security has extensive access to people’s cellphone location data.

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