Trump's immigration enforcement agents use cellphone location data to track individuals for detention - WSJ

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/02/07/trumps-immigration-enforceme.html

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And you wonder why New York State won’t share DMV data with that goon squad?

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Finally, full Orwell happened.

This is direct proof we need serious privacy laws in the USA that imprison people for decades for this shit, and absolutely eyewatering levels of fines for any telecom that enables this shit!

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ICE is Il Douche’s most loyal law enforcement agency. They’re not going to stop with immigrants if he gets a second term.

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They’re halfway there…

They’re targeting people for political reasons already:

and “accidentally” detaining large numbers of US citizens:

Wouldn’t it be “funny” if those two trends started overlapping.

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The Fourth Reich is well on its way.

Republicans afraid of confronting drumpf for fear of being primaried? Just wait till you’re afraid of confronting drumpf for fear of being put in jail. Or just being disappeared.

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If they are using an advertising network for tracking, it’s very likely that Google is involved.

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This is also fully preventable under the current system by educating people that “free” apps and services are paid for with this tracking data.

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We just had an ICE caravan get a warm locals welcome here in South San Diego, next time ICE should huddle up out of the hood before they go Nazi the barrio.

P.S. Why is it these things never make the National news?

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Thank you, Patriot Act! The gift that keeps giving.

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You mean like the treaties and laws against torture? How would they be enforced when all of the records are, by policy, deleted?

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That looks like the first problem to fix.

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