Homeland Security Is Buying Its Way Around the Fourth Amendment
19 July 2022
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19 July 2022
American taxpayers pay to be spied upon. That's one takeaway from new documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which has been examining how federal agents spent millions to purchase massive troves of cellphone location data and dodge Fourth Amendment requirements. As part of a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the ACLU obtained thousands of previously unreleased records showing how DHS agencies—including Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)—are purchasing and accessing "huge volumes of people's cell phone location information quietly extracted from smartphone apps." These agencies are "sidestepping our Fourth ...
Homeland Security Is Buying Its Way Around the Fourth Amendment
Federal agencies have spent millions to buy cellphone location data and dodge Fourth Amendment requirements.
reason.com
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