2020-12-03
.@ByronTau reports DHS lawyers began examining use of location data after “concerns were raised by several offices within the department that use of the technology wasn't compatible with a 2018 Supreme Court ruling” https://www.wsj.com/...
Wall Street Journal
DHS' IG says it's probing the department's practice of tracking people without a warrant by buying brokered cellphone data, after Democratic senators' request
a contractor that works with ICE—obtains location data from apps. Names the middlemen companies that feed the data. Unclear if ICE gets all data from this chain, but certainly Venn...
2020-06-23
NEW: President Trump will sign an executive order suspending work visas — including H1B — through end of year & will extend previous green card restrictions through December as well, according to a sr administration official. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
BuzzFeed News
Trump's new executive order will suspend H-1B, J-1, and H-2B visas, be in effect until the end of the year, and not immediately affect workers already in the US
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2019-09-12
The contract appears to be w/ ICE's Homeland Security Investigations Cyber Crimes Center. HSI primarily handles criminal investigations alongside law enforcement partners such as the US Attorney's Office and local police. https://twitter.com/...
The Daily Beast
Filing: ICE will pay Cellebrite, an Israeli hacking tools vendor, between $30M to $35M over the next one to five years, more than ten times their 2017 contract
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