ICE used private facebook data to track suspected illegal immigrants

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In an article posted yesterday, ICE has apparently been using and relied on Facebook data to find and track immigrants that are suspected of being in the U.S illegally. Ice has used backend Facebook data to determine when the account of the person in question was accessed and if the IP adresses corresponds to each login. ICE agents have reportedly combined this data with other routinely used records like phone records to pinpoint people's locations. Facebook is already in a scandal with Cambridge Analytica, a firm that controls data because apparently, Cambridge Analytica misused Facebook's data of 50 million users to develop the software that the Trump campaign used to target voters in the 2016 election.

The article also says that the use of Facebook's data is not illegal. Facebook responded and said that "ICE sent valid legal process to us in an investigation said to involove an active chid predator". Facebook also denies that the data was used to identify an immigration law violation, saying it "does not provide ICE or any other law enforcement agency with any special data access to assist with the enforcement of immigration law".

http://fortune.com/2018/03/27/facebook-data-ice-immigrants-deport/

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