Name: How the U.S. Government Obtains and Uses Cellphone Location Data | WSJ
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That location data is commercially available

like your social media profile, email address,

But what the Wall Street Journal has learned

is that the government has also bought a commercial data

and is using it for some forms of law enforcement.

- Two components of the Department of Homeland Security

are using this app-generated marketing data

The fact that there're millions of cellphones

makes it one of the larger domestic surveillance efforts

that we've become aware of in recent years.

It raises a lot of questions among the Americans

and what kind of information corporations

and what those corporations are doing with that information.

and agree to let an app use your location.

Rideshare apps want to know where to pick you up.

But often those apps are also sharing your location

with marketers who're using it for targeted ads, research,

But what we found is that, in some cases,

that consumer data is being resold to companies

that buy and sell data for the government.

According to people familiar with the matter

and documents reviewed by the Wall Street Journal,

the Trump administration has purchased the database

that maps the movements of millions of cellphones

and it's using it for immigration and border enforcement.

In 2018, data tracking contributed to the discovery

according to people with knowledge of the operation.

- Sources describe this one case down in Arizona,

between his property, which was an abandoned KFC restaurant,

Police say that smugglers were using this tunnel,

that they found this tunnel based on cell records.

- [Narrator] In a statement to the Wall Street Journal,

"While CBP is being provided access to location information,

"it is important to note that such information

"does not include cellular phone tower data,

"and does not include the individual user's identity."

But people familiar with some of the government efforts

say it is used to generate investigative leads

and for detection or tracking of migrant groups.

in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's

One reads, "The goal is to utilize this data

"to detect the presence of - but not identify -

"individuals in an area which CBP has identified

"consistent with CBP statutory authorities,

- [Woman's Voice] Your average consumer looks at their phone

- [Narrator] The marketing technology ecosystem

- [Man's Voice] Marketers create audiences

including location, platform, device type

what more than 250 million mobile consumers do in real life.

- [Narrator] It's big business and there are many companies

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