It costs millions of dollars to track the mobile location of people at home and abroad without authorization

Americans use mobile phones （ National Broadcasting Corporation ）

Overseas network 7 month 19 (Reuters) According to NBC , American Civil Liberties Union 18 The latest report released on the th disclosed , since 2017 Since then , The U.S. Department of Homeland Security purchased mobile location data from two companies without authorization , To track people at home and abroad in the United States 、 Border and overseas operations , It costs millions of dollars .

A large number of contracts exposed in the report show , The customs and Border Protection Agency under the Department of Homeland Security 、 Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bureau and other departments , Zeng Xiang Venntel And Babel Street Two technology companies buy positioning data of people at home and abroad .Venntel In an email , The company “ Daily Automatic Compilation 、 Process and verify from 2.5 More than 100 million mobile devices 150 More than 100 million positioning signals .” It is not clear whether these data are used for specific arrests of individuals .

Wesler, deputy director of the ACLU program, said , Law enforcement departments can easily determine a person's identity based on his location data .“ The records in the report give us a better understanding of how U.S. law enforcement and immigration agencies have used the sensitive location history of millions of Americans in the country . American law lacks strong privacy protection , Make all of us vulnerable to certain government employees ‘ For a while ’ Keep track of .”

（ Overseas network Yang Jia ）