{"id":38536,"date":"2020-12-03T13:30:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T13:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/aclu-sues-us-govt-demands-to-know-if-agents-are-buying-their-way-around-warrants-to-track-suspects-smartphones\/"},"modified":"2020-12-03T13:30:12","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T13:30:12","slug":"aclu-sues-us-govt-demands-to-know-if-agents-are-buying-their-way-around-warrants-to-track-suspects-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/aclu-sues-us-govt-demands-to-know-if-agents-are-buying-their-way-around-warrants-to-track-suspects-smartphones\/","title":{"rendered":"ACLU sues US govt, demands to know if agents are buying their way around warrants to track suspects&#8217; smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has sued the US government, claiming Homeland Security agents trampled over people&#8217;s constitutional rights \u2013 by buying phone location data from commercial brokers rather than getting necessary search warrants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These practices raise serious concerns that federal immigration authorities are evading Fourth Amendment protections for cell phone location information by paying for access instead of obtaining a warrant,&#8221; the ACLU <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/news\/immigrants-rights\/the-u-s-government-is-secretly-using-cell-phone-location-data-to-track-us-were-suing\/\">said<\/a> in a statement this week.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018 the Supreme Court <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2018\/06\/22\/supreme_court_carpenter_location\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ruled<\/a> in the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/17pdf\/16-402_new_o75q.pdf\">Carpenter v. 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That data is then often shared or sold to third parties, who go on to sell it to advertising networks, marketers, and the like, and now, it seems, US law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>A report in February <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/federal-agencies-use-cellphone-location-data-for-immigration-enforcement-11581078600\">found<\/a> that the Department of Homeland Security and its Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agencies had paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to access a database containing geolocation data of people&#8217;s cell phones.<\/p>\n<p>Immigrants were the target; officials tracked down their precise locations to arrest them, the ACLU <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/aclu-v-dhs-complaint\">lawsuit<\/a> alleges. 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