Ice 825 thousand dollars this year spent on vehicles with IMSI owners

The United States of Migration and Customs paid $ 825,000 this year for the monitoring technology that could spy on nearby mobile phones. Techcrunch The contract, which provides “CSS), selects the” CSS) “to support the technical operations program for internal security”, in public records. this Not the first time ICE used simulations for the cell site, but the agency has recently drew a protest of acts like illegal Detention of American citizens and Using violence Against journalists and demonstrators because it is implementing the enforcement of the migration that President Donald Trump requested.

Techops specialized vehicles equipped with the cell site simulating the cell site, also known as IMSI-CATTHERS, in this contract with ICE. IMSI symbolizes the “International Mobile subscriber ID”, which is a unique identifier for every user on a cellular network. The cell site simulations act as fake cellular constellations that can eavesdrop on any mobile phone in the nearby area when the user connects to the actual cellular towers of their service provider.

There are active and negative versions of IMSI owners. The negatives are less interfering, but the active IMSI formulation can intercept all the data transferred from mobile phones as well as tracking the phones site. the Techcrunch The report did not reveal the version used by ICE. This monitoring technology can also overlap with the target phone capacity Contact emergency services Via 911, the threat of safety. It is also controversial because it does not include a judicial matter and can expose the information of innocent passers -by to the government.