Leftist website screams that ICE is now "monitoring your phones"--like FBI did on J6!

Two days ago (1/8) a Democrat-fellating leftist website called "404media" published a breathless, screaming piece titled

Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods

The author says ICE has purchased two "surveillance systems" that can "track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home...or to their employer!"

The use of the word "monitor" is very carefully chosen, because your average Democrat voter will think it means ICE will listen to your calls.  That's deliberate, and false.  But Dems will get their panties in a twist thinking it's true.

Then the hoot, because this is exactly what the FBI did on January 6th, 2021.  You remember: that so-called "insurrection where not a single person other than govt thugs was armed, eh?  The one where the only people killed were two women with the protesters--one fatally shot by a capitol cop and the other beaten to death by a female capitol cop.  (Officer Brian Sicknick was NOT hit in the head or anyplace else by a fire extinguisher, or anything else, and was found to have died from natural causes.)

SO...back to the breathless 404 piece: 404 was founded in 2023 by four former staffers for the leftist website Vice, which filed for bankruptcy.  Author Joseph Cox was one of the co-founders.  So did Cox write an equally breathless piece about bribem's DOJ and FBI using exactly the same tech to arrest J6'ers in 2021 who merely walked BY the Capitol without going in?

If he did I haven't found it.  I'll go out on a limb and guess he didn't.  Anyway, here's the short answer:  the software doesn't listen to calls, but to the handshakes between cell phones and towers.  Cell towers give a bearing to the phone, and with crossing bearings from two towers the system can determine the location a that phone within a few hundred feet. 

This is exactly what bribem's FBI and Merrick Garland's DOJ did in 2021.  "Wait!  We at 404 ALSO tol' ya ICE could do dis wifout a warrant!"  Yeah, well...no was needed when bribem was doing it in 2021 either.

Cox breathlessly notes that the ability to track phones is "alarming civil liberties experts and raising questions on what exactly ICE will use the system for."  Well, Joe, how about exactly what bribem's dictators did in 2021, eh?  And did you and Vice breathe a critical word?  No?  I'm shocked.  Not.

Cox quotes "Nathan Freed Wessler, deputy project director of the "Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project" for the ACLU, bleating “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.  This granular location information paints a detailed picture of who we are, where we go, and who we spend time with.”  

Ohhh absolutely, sparky!  And I was SO impressed with all those articles the ACLU wrote criticizing bribem's and Garland's DOJ and FBI for using this same tool (different seller) to arrest J6 protesters!

Oh wait...the ACLU didn't write a single word of criticism of the DOJ and FBI when bribem's people used the same technology THEN.  No wails about privacy THEN.  Oh the ACLU did do some things concerning cell phone tracking: they used FOIA requests to find out what conditions the FBI imposed on state and local governments for using either "simulators" or actual catchers.  And they bitched about the use of non-disclosure agreements that kept cops from disclosing all the capabilities of the technology.
   Again, not the same thing as complaining about "invasion of privacy."  But NOW that Trump is prez, suddenly "dis iz absolutely AWFUL!" 

At this rate I expect Cox will write a piece wailing that license-plate readers are unconstitutional, despite having no concerns at all when bribem was allegedly president.

Of course no one today is surprised by Dem double-standards.  Just like that lying rat-bastard Chuckie Schumer wailing back in 2020 that Trump hadn't taken any steps to remove Maduro, then screaming after Trump removed Maduro in twenty minutes, with no loss of U.S. life.  

Like all Democrats, Chuckie thinks we don't know how to search the Internet for his past bleats.  That's a technology he hasn't needed to master, since he has staff for that.  So he forgets that it works on everyone--including corrupt Democrat leaders.

Source: 404

Same source, different URL 

https://archive.is/HYbBG

https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-tool-to-monitor-phones-in-entire-neighborhoods/