In turn, investigators within DHS - an umbrella that includes U.S. The data, according to Venntel documents, can be used to “identify devices observed at places of interest,” and “identify repeat visitors, frequented locations, pinpoint known associates, and discover pattern of life.” Though the report does not identify specific people whose information was at issue, bulk surveillance tactics affect us all,” Mahmoud said. “We continue to see data privacy issues impact various aspects of government involvement in our lives, such as law enforcement agencies like DHS using our own data to surveil us. Even location points from Amsterdam and Bucharest surfaced in the thousands of pages of documents. Customs and Border Protection alone collected data from more than 113,000 locations across the Southwest without obtaining a warrant, amounting to 26 data points every minute.ĭocuments obtained by the ACLU point to a concentrated effort to surveil cities in the Southwest, particularly Phoenix and Los Angeles, although the organization notes only a “small subset” - 336,000 location points from 2018 - is currently available.Īnd from New York City to Menominee, Michigan, a city of about 9,000, the program appears to be nationwide.ĭata from both Canada and Mexico was also collected, including Toronto and Mexico City, the largest cities in each country.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement likely has your driver’s license information and more - even if you’re a citizenīillions of locations, millions of smartphonesĪt the heart of the program are two data brokers, Venntel and Babel Street, which in documents obtained by the ACLU claimed to be able to automatically compile 15 billion location points from over 250 million cellphones every day.īy comparison, there are roughly 258 million adults in the U.S., according to census data.Įmails highlighted in the report suggest the program was directed to track “patterns of illegal immigration,” though information on thousands, possibly millions, of U.S.
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