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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) inspector general is investigating the government’s usage of mobile phone location information accessed without search warrants.
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a branch of DHS,”has obtained a government company named Venntel almost half a million bucks to get access to some commercial database containing area data mined from software on countless Americans’ cell telephones,” five Democratic US senators stated in October.
“CBP isn’t above the law and it shouldn’t have the ability to purchase its way across the Fourth Amendment,” the senators informed Inspector General Joseph Cuffari while requesting an investigation to”CBP’s warrantless use of commercial databases comprising Americans’ advice, such as but not restricted to Venntel’s place database”
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