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Cell phones can't call or use the web. ICE is using them to track migrants

• sieabahlpark 4y ago
• lioeters 4y ago
  > Immigration and Customs Enforcement is monitoring nearly a quarter of a million migrants in a program using GPS ankle monitors, phones or an app known as SmartLINK. > The agency relies on BI Inc., a subsidiary of private prison company GEO Group, to run it. > Several organizations..filed a lawsuit in April asking a judge to order ICE to release more information about how data obtained through SmartLINK is tracked, used and shared. The suit decries "constant, invasive surveillance" and says the program takes a major toll on the immigrants enrolled in it.
• lsy 4y ago
  > The company says it's a myth that the app frequently malfunctions and causes immigrants to miss check-ins. "An average of 88.4% of SmartLINK check-ins were completed successfully over the last five years," GEO says. That doesn't seem like a "myth" to me, that number is abysmal for a process that, upon failure, makes you subject to arrest.
  • yellowapple 4y ago
    That's abysmal in general. Ain't even a single nine.
• nn3 4y ago
  88.4% successfull checkins sounds quite low. With thousands of people in the program thats a very high failure rate. Of course some of it may be intentional, but even if half of it is intentional thats a huge amount of unintentional failures to check in. Not sure how they can sell that as a success.