https://www.notus.org/technology/dhs-access-phone-movements-data
"The Department of Homeland Security is expected to stop buying access to data showing the movement of phones — a controversial practice that has allowed it to warrantlessly track hundreds of millions of people for years.
Since 2018, agencies within the department — including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Secret Service — have been buying access to commercially available data that revealed the movement patterns of devices, many inside the United States. Commercially available phone data can be bought and searched without judicial oversight."
#privacy #FourthAmendment
@olives Two suspicious things about this: They are expected to stop buying it and it's an emission.
Did the government learn how to save money?
@AmpBenzScientist
"Three people familiar with the matter said the Department of Homeland Security isn’t expected to buy access to more of this data, nor will the agency make any additional funding available to buy access to this data."
According to the article, "Three people familiar with the matter" said they're expected to stop buying it.
It would be nice if they did, I'm a bit sceptical too.
@olives Some people are afraid to read the secret messages in their Cheerios. Maybe the Cheerios said that the government is going to do the collection themselves. Then again I don't read Aramaic.