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IRS Could Search Warrantless Location Database Over 10,000 Times

Posted on November 24, 2020 by pogowasright.org

Joseph Cox reports:

The IRS was able to query a database of location data quietly harvested from ordinary smartphone apps over 10,000 times, according to a copy of the contract between IRS and the data provider obtained by Motherboard.

The document provides more insight into what exactly the IRS wanted to do with a tool purchased from Venntel, a government contractor that sells clients access to a database of smartphone movements.

Read more on Vice.

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