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ICE just launched a $2.4M contract with a secretive data surveillance company that tracks you in real time — Newsweek

By TechTaffy Desk

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has signed a $2.4 million contract with a little-known surveillance company that mines communications data and provides “real-time” tracking, writes Chantal Da Silva in Newsweek.

Here is the link: http://www.newsweek.com/ice-just-signed-24m-contract-secretive-data-surveillance-company-can-track-you-962493

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