{"id":58736,"date":"2024-08-26T13:03:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T18:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=58736"},"modified":"2024-08-26T16:44:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T21:44:16","slug":"exas-observer-texas-state-police-gear-up-for-massive-expansion-of-surveillance-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=58736","title":{"rendered":"Texas Observer: Texas State Police Gear Up for Massive Expansion of Surveillance Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Texas Observer: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasobserver.org\/texas-dps-surveillance-tangle-cobwebs\/\">Texas State Police Gear Up for Massive Expansion of Surveillance Tech<\/a> by Francesca D\u2019Annunzio (&#8220;In June, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) signed an acquisition plan for a 5-year, nearly $5.3 million contract for a controversial surveillance tool called Tangles from tech firm PenLink, according to records obtained by the Texas Observer through a public information request. The deal is nearly twice as large as the company\u2019s $2.7 million two-year contract with the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Tangles is an artificial intelligence-powered web platform that scrapes information from the open, deep, and dark web. Tangles\u2019 premier add-on feature, WebLoc, is controversial among digital privacy advocates. Any client who purchases access to WebLoc can track different mobile devices\u2019 movements in a specific, virtual area selected by the user, through a capability called &#8216;geofencing.&#8217; Users of software like Tangles can do this without a search warrant or subpoena. (In a high-profile ruling, the Fifth Circuit recently held that police cannot compel companies like Google to hand over data obtained through geofencing.)&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Observer: Texas State Police Gear Up for Massive Expansion of Surveillance Tech by Francesca D\u2019Annunzio (&#8220;In June, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) signed an acquisition plan for a 5-year, nearly $5.3 million contract for a controversial surveillance &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=58736\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58739,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58736\/revisions\/58739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}