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Title: Previously secret Homeland Security report on illegal use of smartphone location data now public
Post by: HCK on October 12, 2023, 04:05:06 pm
Previously secret Homeland Security report on illegal use of smartphone location data now public

<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/10/Homeland-Security-report-on-Secret-Serrvice-ICE-CBP.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1500)</div><p>A Homeland Security report on the illegal use of smartphone location data by multiple government agencies – including the US Secret Service – has now been made public. The report concludes that three separate US agencies broke the law by breaching <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/privacy/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">privacy[/url] protections.</p>



<p>The report was originally categorized as Law Enforcement Sensitive, but this classification has now been removed, and a redacted version made available to the public … </p>



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