State agency "ICE" to crack down on illegal immigration is using Facebook user data

bySamantha Steele

Facebook has been compromised as much as 50 million personal information, Mark Zuckerburg to respond laterI am strugglingIt is reported that it is an agency that conducts illegal immigration exile activities in the United States of AmericaICE (Immigration and Customs Administration Bureau)It is clear that you are using Facebook user data.

ICE Uses Facebook Data to Find and Track Immigrants, Internal Emails Show
https://theintercept.com/2018/03/26/facebook-data-ice-immigration/

In addition to Cambridge Analytica (Cambridge Analytika), a data analysis company that is considered to be involved in President Trump 's birth, it is pointed out that there are institutions that can use Facebook data more effectively. ICE, who is responsible for Mr. Trump's "illegal immigrant mass banishment program", used Facebook's backend data to locate and track immigrants.

Media established for the purpose of monitoring the government's systemThe InterceptAccording to the announcement, from February to March 2017 several ICE agents were in contact with detectives in the state of New Mexico and were searching for information on the target illegal immigrants. Ultimately they get back-end Facebook data and match the logs and IP addresses when accessing the account. He sent the result to Facebook and requested the phone number of the target person and the position information when logging in to the account within a certain period.

Although it was known that law enforcement agencies use records of banks, telephones, and the Internet for investigation, it was not well known how frequently they use SNS data. In the e-mails of ICE investigators published by The Intercept, in addition to the vital communication that each agent investigates "verify the provider's IP address and data" and "sends a subpoena requesting information to the telephone company" , Big Data Analysis Company with transactions with intelligence agencies and military agencies besides ICEPalantir TechnologiesThere is also something that gives us data provision.

byDoD Inspector General

Mr. Rachel Plundini, a lawyer at the Immigration & Legal Resource Center said, "I have not heard that ICE investigative agencies are acquiring Facebook backend data, but I've never heard of pictures and texts that individuals are posting on Facebook In the meantime, there are cases where it is making evidence that "This immigrant is a member of the gang." Specifically, it is said that together with the target immigrants, they insist that the person in the photograph is a gang, and that they are doing hand signs of gangs, etc. It is said that they are the grounds for expulsion of immigrants.

Mr. Matthew Bork, an ICE public relations official, said, "I can not comment on how ICE investigators are conducting criminal investigations, but there is no fact that we are acquiring data illegally, In accordance with established procedures as well as federal law enforcement agencies, we obtain data through legitimate court orders, and also to use open source information that anyone can see for investigation There is "to the Intercept.

According to the Facebook report, from January 2017 to June 2017 alone, Facebook has received 33,216 data publication requests for a total of 52,280 users. 57% of the data disclosure requests accompanied legal instructions prohibiting notification to the target user, Facebook said that they handed over the data in response to 85% of the request.

byAdán Sánchez de Pedro

The American Free Human Rights AssociationNathan Wesura's lawyer belonging to the summons by the "court, it is possible to very easily issue for ICE and other law enforcement agencies. It is almost without a stop is applied by the judge, as defined and the target of the information that is known at the moment to form, has said that newly you just write the desired information ", as it is easy to ICE to access the back-end data of SNS, including the Facebook is.