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Original Date Announced
January 8, 2026404 Media reports that ICE purchased Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance tools designed to track entire neighborhoods' cellphone activity and monitor social-media presence, from the company Penlink for $2 million in September 2025. Webloc provides cellphone data and allows users to query which cellphones were in certain locations at certain times and what other locations those cellphone users have visited. Tangles is a social-media monitoring tool allowing users to detect faces in an image and attempt to identify them; perform sentiment analysis on a target’s post; and add social-media accounts to a watch list. Both systems allow ICE to acquire and query data without a warrant.
Trump 2.0 [ID #2316]
2026.01.08 Reported: Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods - 404 MediaCurrent Status
NoneOriginal Trump Policy Status
Status: ReportedTrump Administration Action: Change in PracticeSubject Matter: EnforcementAgencies Affected: ICEAssociated or Derivative Policies
- April 18, 2025 Palantir granted $30 million to build "ImmigrationOS" surveillance platform for ICE
- May 27, 2025 Reported: ICE using automated license-plate-reader cameras for immigration enforcement via state/local police
- August 30, 2025 ICE contracts with Paragon to gain access to sophisticated spyware
- September 9, 2025 ICE contracts with Clearview AI for facial-recognition technology
- October 17, 2025 Reported: Trump administration develops and deploys extensive surveillance program
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Commentary
2026.10.07 American Immigration Council - Supreme Court Puts Up Guardrails Around Geofencing, But Immigrants’ Data Is Still at Risk
The American Immigration Council reports that the Supreme Court's June 2026 decision in Chatrie v. United States provides important, but limited, privacy protections for immigrants. Chatrie held that law enforcement requests for geofenced location data from technology companies are searches requiring a warrant under the Fourth Amendment. However, the ruling does not stop government agencies like ICE from purchasing similar location data from commercial data-brokers.
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