Hootsuite Denied Providing Tech to ICE. This Contract Shows That It Did
Hootsuite has yet to provide any evidence it has or will end its contract with ICE.
On Wednesday night, an employee at Vancouver-based tech company Hootsuite revealed on Twitter that the company was working with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“Been debating talking about this publicly because I don’t want to get fired, but it seems like the cat’s already out of the bag so whatever: yesterday Hootsuite signed a three-year deal with ICE. Over 100 employees have been extremely vocal in their opposition to this deal,” the employee tweeted, adding that support team members in Mexico City relayed their personal experiences of harassment by ICE to no avail.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgx75b/hootsuite-denied-providing-tech-to-ice-this-contract-shows-that-it-did
#US #ICE #Hootsuite #contracts
Hootsuite has yet to provide any evidence it has or will end its contract with ICE.
On Wednesday night, an employee at Vancouver-based tech company Hootsuite revealed on Twitter that the company was working with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“Been debating talking about this publicly because I don’t want to get fired, but it seems like the cat’s already out of the bag so whatever: yesterday Hootsuite signed a three-year deal with ICE. Over 100 employees have been extremely vocal in their opposition to this deal,” the employee tweeted, adding that support team members in Mexico City relayed their personal experiences of harassment by ICE to no avail.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgx75b/hootsuite-denied-providing-tech-to-ice-this-contract-shows-that-it-did
#US #ICE #Hootsuite #contracts
Vice
Hootsuite Denied Providing Tech to ICE. This Contract Shows That It Did
Hootsuite has yet to provide any evidence it has or will end its contract with ICE.
Salaat First: Another Popular Muslim Prayer App Sells Location Data to FBI, ICE
Salaat First shared location data with a French firm Predicio which had customers including Venntel, a US government contractor.
The methods of surveillance have changed over time. Nowadays, government agencies do not need to follow someone to track their activities. Mobile phone users, unknowingly, hand over their privacy rights to the tech companies that in turn sell it to government contractors. A popular Muslim prayer app, named Salaat First, found selling users' location data to its partner that has customers with the US government agencies including the FBI and the ICE.
Salaat First, which reminds its users about Muslim prayer timings, has been downloaded over 10 million times on Android. To accurately tell users prayer times, Salaat First asks for permission to read precise location, has access to device ID, phone, media storage, USB storage and full network access. However, the app developer was selling the same user data to its partner, a French firm named Predicio.
https://www.ibtimes.sg/salaat-first-another-popular-muslim-prayer-app-sells-location-data-fbi-ice-54843
#US #France #FBI #ICE #surveillance #location #data
Salaat First shared location data with a French firm Predicio which had customers including Venntel, a US government contractor.
The methods of surveillance have changed over time. Nowadays, government agencies do not need to follow someone to track their activities. Mobile phone users, unknowingly, hand over their privacy rights to the tech companies that in turn sell it to government contractors. A popular Muslim prayer app, named Salaat First, found selling users' location data to its partner that has customers with the US government agencies including the FBI and the ICE.
Salaat First, which reminds its users about Muslim prayer timings, has been downloaded over 10 million times on Android. To accurately tell users prayer times, Salaat First asks for permission to read precise location, has access to device ID, phone, media storage, USB storage and full network access. However, the app developer was selling the same user data to its partner, a French firm named Predicio.
https://www.ibtimes.sg/salaat-first-another-popular-muslim-prayer-app-sells-location-data-fbi-ice-54843
#US #France #FBI #ICE #surveillance #location #data
International Business Times
Salaat First: Another Popular Muslim Prayer App Sells Location Data to FBI, ICE
Salaat First shared location data with a French firm Predicio which had customers including Venntel, a US government contractor.