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Texas to Adopt “Tangles” – a Warrantless Profiling and Geofencing Tool

Posted on September 23, 2024 by Dissent

Earlier this month, the Project for Privacy and Surveillance Accountability (PPSA) wrote:

The Texas Observer reports that the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) signed a 5-year, nearly $5.3 million contract for the Tangles surveillance tool, originally designed by former Israeli military officers to catch terrorists in the Middle East.

In its acquisition plan, DPS references the 2019 murder of 23 people at an El Paso Walmart, as well as shooting sprees in the Texas cities of Midland and Odessa. If Tangles surveillance stops the next mass shooter, that will be reason for all to celebrate. But Tangles can do much more than spot shooters on the verge of an attack (assuming it can actually do that). It uses artificial intelligence to scrape data from the open, deep, and dark web, combining a privacy-piercing profile of anyone it targets. Its WebLoc feature can track mobile devices – and therefore people – across a wide geofenced area.

Read more at PPSA.

h/t, Joe Cadillic

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