{"id":62730,"date":"2026-01-09T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62730"},"modified":"2026-01-09T10:19:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T15:19:00","slug":"404-media-inside-ices-tool-to-monitor-phones-in-entire-neighborhoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62730","title":{"rendered":"404 Media: Inside ICE\u2019s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>404 Media: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/inside-ices-tool-to-monitor-phones-in-entire-neighborhoods\/\">Inside ICE\u2019s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods<\/a> by Joseph Cox (&#8220;A social media and phone surveillance system ICE bought access to is designed to monitor a city neighborhood or block for mobile phones, track the movements of those devices and their owners over time, and follow them from their places of work to home or other locations, according to material that describes how the system works obtained by 404 Media. Commercial location data, in this case acquired from hundreds of millions of phones via a company called Penlink, can be queried without a warrant, according to an internal ICE legal analysis shared with 404 Media. The purchase comes squarely during ICE\u2019s mass deportation effort and continued crackdown on protected speech, alarming civil liberties experts and raising questions on what exactly ICE will use the surveillance system for.&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>404 Media: Inside ICE\u2019s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods by Joseph Cox (&#8220;A social media and phone surveillance system ICE bought access to is designed to monitor a city neighborhood or block for mobile phones, track the movements &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62730\">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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62730","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=62730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62731,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62730\/revisions\/62731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}