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Tony Bark@pawb.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 hours ago

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

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ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

www.404media.co

Tony Bark@pawb.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 hours ago
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Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

Archive: https://archive.is/wfmdL

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    I don’t need to show you a badge. No one does. I can’t just go get your info from the data broker.

    Perhaps you see the problem here…

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      I believe there has been a case of this. I remember a person phished some service to give them access to a person’s account or account data under the guise of “lives are on the line here”. Might’ve also spoofed the email, but either way, he managed to get it

      Edit: something like this

      https://gizmodo.com/hackers-are-using-police-emails-to-send-tech-companies-fraudulent-data-requests-2000522134

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        Once I looked celebrity’s well-known family member just to see how bad data brokers are. It game me her info and it had a relative section that listed all of the celebrity’s info too, including addresses and phone numbers. It was bonkers that it was so easy to find. Especially, since I didn’t pay for it. That was just 100% free searches on various data sites and google. Imagine what I could have done if I had paid for info.

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        I’ll do you one better. Murders have been committed using data purchased from brokers: https://www.wired.com/story/minnesota-lawmaker-shootings-people-search-data-brokers/

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          That’s even easier to do, yeah

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