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　　The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bureau was exposed to build an efficient monitoring network! Access to 74% American driver’s license data

　　The United States, which has carried out cyber attacks around the world, is monitoring its own people in an all-round way. A report published by a domestic organization in the United States has truly exposed this and exposed the behind-the-scenes institution that was not noticed by the public before: the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Professionals believe that,How many "invisible" government agencies like ICE openly abuse citizens’ personal privacy data beyond their authority is also a question of "careful consideration".

　　The report "tight encirclement in America: Data-Driven Expulsion in the 21st Century" was released in May by the Center for Privacy and Technology Law of Georgetown University. After two years’ investigation, the center found that since its establishment in 2003, ICE has successfully established an efficient monitoring network, spending huge sums of money to collect the private data of most American residents, which is far beyond the authorization of immigration law enforcement, making ICE an out-and-out domestic monitoring agency.

　　ICE’s bad behavior was exposed,It is proved that in addition to the "conventional" law enforcement departments such as the National Security Agency (NSA), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) or the police station, there are more "invisible" government departments in the United States that use data monitoring power indefinitely for ordinary people.

　　ICE Skynet covers about 3/4 of the population in the United States.

　　ICE, which was created after the September 11th attacks, was given broad powers to fight terrorism and enforce immigration laws. Although ICE has always positioned itself as a law enforcement agency for "criminal foreigners". But the fact is, on the grounds of anti-terrorism, ICE collects people’s personal information across legal and moral boundaries, and weaves a huge monitoring system with incredible scope and ways to escape.

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　　In addition to using the resources of state and local police, ICE began to set up databases from outside law enforcement departments and invested heavily in projects to track a large number of ordinary people. According to the report, from 2008 to 2021, ICE spent about $2.8 billion on new monitoring, data collection and data sharing programs. During this period, the annual expenditure on monitoring projects increased more than five times, from about $71 million to about $388 million. In addition, more than $1.3 billion was spent on geo-location providers, about $96 million was spent on biometric technologies such as face scanning, and another $252 million was spent on accessing key government databases such as the International Public Safety and Justice Network (Nlets).

　　According to the report,At present, it is known that ICE has the right to access the driver’s license data of 74% Americans and track the movement of 70% cars in the city, and has used face recognition technology to search the driver’s license photos of 32% American adults.When 74% of Americans are connected to natural gas, electricity, telephone or Internet in their new homes, ICE can automatically get their new addresses in the first time.

　　By getting data from every available source, ICE’s surveillance plan is like a skynet that covers most Americans. And all these tracking and monitoring actions are carried out smoothly in silence unknown to most Americans without any reason.

　　ICE can track almost anyone "under the noses of lawmakers"

　　Nina Wang, policy assistant at the Center for Privacy and Technology Law of Georgetown University and co-author of the research report, said: "ICE has established a comprehensive monitoring infrastructure that can track almost anyone at any time.The agency has strengthened its almost completely confidential and unpunished monitoring ability, avoided restrictions and can act under the noses of parliamentarians. "

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　　After the report exposed all kinds of cross-line monitoring behaviors of ICE, many American media also joined the exposure ranks. TheVerge, an American technology news website, called on relevant private enterprises to stop their cooperation with ICE and asked the government to strengthen the supervision of such cooperation. TheWellNews, an independent news organization website in the United States, confirmed an incident in which undocumented immigrants were taken away after applying for a driver’s license in 2020, criticizing ICE for abusing immigrants’ trust in the United States. The TheHill pointed out in a report that during the epidemic, ICE developed a GPS mobile phone software called Smartlink to track immigrants, claiming that it was only to ensure them to attend the hearing of the immigration court. However, the software has been used on a large number of immigrants who have no criminal record and are not detained, and whether there are other hidden uses is unknown.

　　For many years, domestic privacy law experts, civil rights activists and lawyers in the United States have accused ICE of over-expansion of its surveillance strategy against immigrants, which has affected most ordinary American citizens. However, officials of ICE turned a blind eye to relevant reports and went their own way. The root cause of ICE’s long-term unbridled and unscrupulous fabrication of monitoring Skynet is the imperfection of the American legal system.

　　The three channels openly steal secrets, and the American legal supervision system fails.

　　The report shows that just as American intelligence agencies can obtain information data of ordinary American citizens on the grounds of "accidental" when monitoring domestic and foreign telephone and Internet use on a large scale,ICE takes advantage of the weakness of the federal and state privacy laws to openly steal secrets from three major channels, while the federal and state laws in the United States are completely powerless to stop it.

　　The first channel is to directly request data from state and local bureaucracies, such as the State Motor Vehicle Administration.There is evidence that ICE makes hundreds or thousands of requests to vehicle management offices all over the United States every year.

　　DPPA, a federal law passed by the US Congress in 1994 to protect drivers’ record information, failed to take into account that federal immigration law enforcement agencies would take the initiative to invade drivers’ privacy, so that ICE could successfully obtain drivers’ data from the DMV. The legal barriers at the state level are even weaker. According to the survey conducted by the Center for Privacy and Technology Law of Georgetown University, among the 17 jurisdictions that have the qualification to grant driving licenses, 6 States have weak restrictions on "directly requesting data", 7 States have weak restrictions on "accessing government databases" and 6 States have weak restrictions on "data agency", and 5 States have no meaningful restrictions on "face recognition search".

　　The second channel is to access relevant information through the government database, and at the same time buy services such as face recognition to help analyze relevant data.ICE has deployed a wider range of data sharing and data collection procedures, and directly obtained data information of almost every American through the data systems of state and local bureaucracies such as the United States State Vehicle Administration. When the only reliable information that ICE has about someone is a photo, their long-prepared face recognition technology comes in handy. There are few laws and regulations in the United States that restrict law enforcement agencies from using face recognition technology. At the same time, when ICE continues to obtain personal information from government databases such as the International Network for Public Security and Justice (Nlets), bypassing the asylum policies promulgated by cities and states, no institution claims to be responsible for the subsequent data tracking behavior. Employees of the Department of Transportation in Idaho who provide driver information said that "we only provide this information to the state police", but the state police rarely keep the inquiry records of ICE’s Nlets database, which leads to the open and secret inquiry behavior of ICE.

　　The third channel is to collect citizens’ public facilities use records and purchase private company databases from unregulated data agents.The federal privacy law and many state laws have huge defects in the protection of public facilities use record data.

　　The report shows that the existing federal privacy laws only protect consumers’ information under limited circumstances such as the use of banks and other financial institutions, while most states fail to take meaningful privacy protection measures to restrict the release of public utility customer information to law enforcement agencies. For example, although California legislates to prohibit related companies from selling customer data, it does not prevent these companies from sharing customer information with companies such as the National Telecommunications and Public Utilities Information Exchange Center (NCTUE) for credit evaluation and other purposes. Once the credit check is completed, NCTUE has the right to resell its customer information to a third party such as ICE. In this regard, ICE successfully bypassed the restriction that "it is necessary to send subpoenas to companies such as water and electricity to obtain the use records of specific personal public facilities" and pursued all "suspicious targets" without scruple. ICE purchased a large number of license plate photos from the database of private companies to record the daily activities of drivers in the 50 largest cities in the United States for "assisting in the investigation".

　　A scary question: How many invisible institutions are there in the United States?

　　In the report, the researchers called on Congress, the Department of Homeland Security and state legislators to strengthen supervision and restrictions on ICE.

　　Professionals who have been engaged in the network security industry told the Global Times reporter that,"The American government is worthy of the name ‘ The matrix ’ ‘ Stealing secrets empire ’ It not only indiscriminately carries out cyber attacks on the world to obtain information, but also implements all-round monitoring measures for its own people. "

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　　This person said that the US government’s hegemonic act of ignoring the rules and breaking the bottom line in the name of "national security" was not a day’s work. Under the two major driving forces of commercial interests and "national security", it is not known when the huge monitoring network that ICE has built can be effectively controlled. How many "invisible" government agencies like ICE that openly abuse citizens’ personal privacy data beyond their authority is also a question of "careful consideration" National security ’ All kinds of rhetoric are being seen through by the world one after another and become the most significant political footnote for the United States to seek hegemony. "