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Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest. Mobile network anomalies consistent with cell phone surveillance were detected at a July 4 protest at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Washington state.
Mobile network anomalies consistent with cell phone surveillance were detected at a July 4 protest at an ICE field office in Washington state.
Nathan Freed Wessler, deputy director with the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy and Technology Project, said the use of a Stingray device “to identify or track people exercising their First Amendment right to protest would raise grave concerns.” “Especially when compared to the results of the scan from the next day, the high number of IMSI-exposing messages seen during the event are strongly suggestive of the presence of an IMSI-catching device,” said Patrick Traynor, a professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida and one of Marlin’s inventors. “ICE under Trump more closely resembles a secret police force in an authoritarian regime,” he said, “with their masked agents and unmarked vehicles abducting people off the street, than a legitimate agency within a co-equal branch of government accountable to voters in a constitutional democracy.”
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