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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Rhian Lubin

Trump goes on spyware purchasing blitz to help ICE find people who they claim want to ‘overthrow of the United States Government’

The Trump administration has gone on a spyware spending blitz to bolster Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s mission to seek out undocumented migrants, and people who they claim want to “overthrow the United States Government.”

ICE is spending tens of millions of dollars on new spyware contracts, which include eye-scanning apps, software that tracks a phone without a court warrant and can hack into them remotely, and recruiting new staff to man a social media monitoring network.

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