In a redacted acquisition document obtained by the tech news site 404 Media, the immigration agency proposes entering into a contract to buy “all-in-one” tools from a company called PenLink that will allow agents to “compile, process, and validate billions of daily location signals from hundreds of millions of mobile devices.” The document also mentions payments for services involving “face detection,” “advanced face search,” and a “dark web data feed.”
Not that it seems to matter to them, but I’m pretty sure warrantless tracking via cell signal has been expressly deemed illegal by the courts.
- This administration doesn’t give a fuck about court precedence
- They are buying the data, not getting court orders for it. It’s the loophole around due process
This data shouldn’t even be sold by mobile carriers in the first place, but
capitalismgreed must steamroll along.Capitalism is just greed as government in our current iteration of it
Most of this has been deemed as such :/
Even Batman thought this was too much surveillance for anyone to have.
Fun fact: The Dark Night was released before the Snowden whistleblowing. Kinda crazy they knew before we did.
If a law enforcement officer wants to put a gps tracker on someone’s vehicle, he has to give probable cause and convince a judge to sign off on it. But suddenly we are giving all law enforcement the power to track every single person at all times, carte blanche, no probablu cause, no judge’s sign off, no nothing needed. Make it make sense.
Make it make sense.
To many stupid people like fascists.
