The American Civil Liberties Union argued that buying bulk datasets such as smartphone location trails helps ICE sidestep warrant requirements and pull in vast amounts of data with no clear link to its enforcement mandate.

American Civil Liberties Union argued that buying bulk datasets helps ICE sidestep warrant requirements and collect data without clear link to enforcement mandate ICE

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• The American Civil Liberties Union argued that buying bulk datasets such as smartphone location trails helps ICE sidestep warrant requirements and pull in vast…

  The American Civil Liberties Union has argued that buying bulk datasets—such as smartphone location trails gathered from ordinary apps—helps ICE sidestep warrant requirements and helps it pull in vast amounts of data with no clear link to its enforcement mandate.

Sources

• ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team cited evidence

Who and what it involves

• ◈American Civil Liberties Union
• ◈ICE

Origin: extracted from ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team · 2026-09-11 21:41