{"id":61916,"date":"2025-09-16T15:30:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61916"},"modified":"2025-09-16T15:30:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:30:26","slug":"deftechtimes-financial-spy-tool-yanked-from-ice-after-agents-used-it-to-hunt-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61916","title":{"rendered":"Deftechtimes: Financial spy tool yanked from ICE after agents used it to hunt immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Deftechtimes: <a href=\"https:\/\/deftechtimes.com\/financial-spy-tool-yanked-from-ice-after-agents-used-it-to-hunt-immigrants\/\">Financial spy tool yanked from ICE after agents used it to hunt immigrants<\/a> by Ruta Deshpande (\u201cImmigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have lost access to a major database that tracked money transfers between the U.S. and Mexico. ICE agents and other law enforcement agencies have used the Transaction Record Analysis Center, or TRAC, for years to monitor hundreds of millions of wire transfers. Western Union and government authorities created it in 2014 through an agreement. Its original purpose was to help ICE agents fight money laundering and drug trafficking.\u201d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deftechtimes: Financial spy tool yanked from ICE after agents used it to hunt immigrants by Ruta Deshpande (\u201cImmigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have lost access to a major database that tracked money transfers between the U.S. and Mexico. ICE &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61916\">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":[107,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration-arrests","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61917,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61916\/revisions\/61917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}