Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
/404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc,
two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track
phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer./
Joseph Cox
Jan 8, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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’s _mass deportation
effort_
<https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-04/ice-border-patrol-dodger-stadium-parking-lot?ref=404media.co>
and continued _crackdown on protected speech_
<https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1975899183644356640?ref=404media.co>,
alarming civil liberties experts and raising questions on what exactly
ICE will use the surveillance system for.
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continua qui (PAYWALL):
https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-tool-to-monitor-phones-in-entire-neighborhoods/
