New Documents Reveal the Extent of Federal Location Surveillance

The Department of Homeland Security has collected reams of location data from a private vendor in order to track people across the United States.

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Feds Accessing Location Data from Millions of People Through Private Brokers

According to a recent report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), data brokers harvest location data from mobile apps and then sell it to government agencies including state and local law enforcement, ICE, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense.

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