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ICE Bought Tech to Track Every Phone in Neighborhoods Without Warrants, Docs Show

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Jan 17, 2026
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ICE has purchased new surveillance technology that lets agents monitor entire city neighborhoods by tracking residents’ cellphone movements without a warrant, a development civil liberties groups say raises major privacy concerns.

The tools — Tangles and Webloc — were acquired through contracts that give Immigration and Customs Enforcement access to vas…

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