DHS' IG says it's probing the department's practice of tracking people without a warrant by buying brokered cellphone data, after Democratic senators' request
a contractor that works with ICE—obtains location data from apps. Names the middlemen companies that feed the data. Unclear if ICE gets all data from this chain, but certainly Venntel gets it https://www.vice.com/... Joseph Cox / @josephfcox : The GDPR requests showed that Sygic (one of the app developers) said it shared information with two other firms. Complementics and Predicio. These companies are data middlemen, obtaining data from one place and selling it onto another https://www.vice.com/... https://twitter.com/... Joseph Cox / @josephfcox : These new findings are based on GDPR requests. In Europe, residents can request their data from companies, including US contractors. Norwegian broadcaster NRK did this to a ton of companies, and sketched out some of the Venntel supply chain https://www.vice.com/... https://twitter.com/... Ailo / @airavn : Here's more on how a person in Norway installing a weather app with swear words can have their information end up with US intelligence agencies. The system is broken. https://www.vice.com/... https://twitter.com/... Joseph Cox / @josephfcox : Then a request with Gravy, the huge advertising firm, said it obtained data from Complementics and Predicio. And crucially, Gravy said it supplied data to Venntel, the ICE contractor. We long suspected Gravy gave the data to Venntel but this is solid now https://www.vice.com/... https://twitter.com/... @hypervisible : “If law enforcement agencies can buy their way around the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement, the landmark protection announced by the Supreme Court in Carpenter will be in peril...” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Hamed Aleaziz / @haleaziz : .@ByronTau reports DHS lawyers began examining use of location data after “concerns were raised by several offices within the department that use of the technology wasn't compatible with a 2018 Supreme Court ruling” https://www.wsj.com/... Chris Hoofnagle / @hoofnagle : WSJ: DHS' “internal watchdog said it would open an investigation into the use of mobile-phone surveillance technologies to track Americans without a warrant, the latest salvo in a debate within the U.S. government over the legality of such techniques.” https://www.wsj.com/...?
New: a key piece of this puzzle. Documents show how Venntel—a contractor that works with ICE—obtains location data from apps. Names the middlemen companies that feed the data. Unclear if ICE gets all data from this chain, but certainly Venntel gets it https://www.vice.com/...
The GDPR requests showed that Sygic (one of the app developers) said it shared information with two other firms. Complementics and Predicio. These companies are data middlemen, obtaining data from one place and selling it onto another https://www.vice.com/... https://twitter.com/…
These new findings are based on GDPR requests. In Europe, residents can request their data from companies, including US contractors. Norwegian broadcaster NRK did this to a ton of companies, and sketched out some of the Venntel supply chain https://www.vice.com/... https://twitte…
Here's more on how a person in Norway installing a weather app with swear words can have their information end up with US intelligence agencies. The system is broken. https://www.vice.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Then a request with Gravy, the huge advertising firm, said it obtained data from Complementics and Predicio. And crucially, Gravy said it supplied data to Venntel, the ICE contractor. We long suspected Gravy gave the data to Venntel but this is solid now https://www.vice.com/... …
“If law enforcement agencies can buy their way around the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement, the landmark protection announced by the Supreme Court in Carpenter will be in peril...” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
.@ByronTau reports DHS lawyers began examining use of location data after “concerns were raised by several offices within the department that use of the technology wasn't compatible with a 2018 Supreme Court ruling” https://www.wsj.com/...
WSJ: DHS' “internal watchdog said it would open an investigation into the use of mobile-phone surveillance technologies to track Americans without a warrant, the latest salvo in a debate within the U.S. government over the legality of such techniques.” https://www.wsj.com/...?