The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has tracked millions of dollars for mobile phone positioning at home and abroad without authorization

Americans use mobile phones (American Broadcasting Corporation)

Overseas Network, July 19th. According to the national radio company, the latest report released by the United States Citizenship Freedom Alliance revealed that since 2017, the US Department of Homeland Security has purchased mobile phone positioning data from the two companies without authorization. In order to track the actions of domestic and foreign people in the United States, border and overseas, it costs millions of dollars.

A large number of contracts exposed by the report show that the customs and border protection bureaus, immigration and customs law enforcement bureaus under the Ministry of Homeland Security have purchased the positioning data of domestic and foreign people from the Venntel and Babel Street technology companies. Venntel said in an email that the company "automatically compiles, process and verify more than 15 billion positioning signals from more than 250 million mobile devices." It is not clear whether these data are used for specific individuals to specific individuals Arrest.

Wesler, deputy director of the U.S. Citizen Freedom Alliance Project, said that law enforcement agencies can easily determine his identity based on a person's positioning data. "The records in the report make us better understand how American law enforcement and immigration institutions use the history of the sensitive positions of millions of Americans in the country. The lack of strong privacy protection in US law has made it easy for all government employees to rise. 'Tracking. "(Overseas Network Yang Jia)

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