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Feds Tracked Down an Anti-ICE Dad in NYC Hotel, but How?

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by ripe

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From the article:
"Financial surveillance by law enforcement is far from unheard of, but it wouldn’t be normal to see agents use it in this way. For instance, ICE in particular once had widespread access to something called the Transaction Record Analysis Center (TRAC), used to surveil immigrants who wired money, but much of that access was clawed back last year amid public scrutiny and accusations of illegality."

by treebeard901

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National fusion centers collect all kinds of data... If the US has even a remote interest in you, they know where you are at all times. They will be in all of your devices. Services. Banking. Etc.
It is just a search away... I really believe even technically minded people do not fully understand the scale and scope of it. And it gets more intrusive every day...
Even the recent Supreme Court ruling on geofencing wont go very far in limiting this form of collection.
It is all archived too. So even if today youre not on the radar, you might be in the future. With this historical view into someones life, you can find a criminal in anyone...

by CodeWriter23

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I'm 100% positive there is more evidence in these cases than is covered by the rag known as Gizmodo.

by salawat

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Every financial institution has infrastructure to provide dumps of at least the last 7 years of transactions by arbitrary customers. No exceptions. The financial sector, or at least those legally operating within it, are de facto extensions of law enforcement.
Keep that in mind next time you think about whether using that card is worth it.