ACLU Sues DHS Over Purchase of Cellphone Location Data to Track Immigrants
Thursday, December 17, 2020
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a nonprofit organization, has sued federal authorities over the alleged use of cellphone location data to track the location of immigrants. The ACLU filed the lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), to compel them to release records concerning the purchase of cellphone location data, which likely will be used for tracking the location of immigrants.
At the beginning of 2020, there were multiple news reports about the Trump administration purchasing access to commercial databases that track cellphone locations and use that data to keep track of illegal immigrants.
The Lawsuit
https://www.natlawreview.com/article/aclu-sues-dhs-over-purchase-cellphone-location-data-to-track-immigrants
