In a redacted acquisition document obtained by the tech news site 404 Media, the immigration agency proposes entering into a contract to buy “all-in-one” tools from a company called PenLink that will allow agents to “compile, process, and validate billions of daily location signals from hundreds of millions of mobile devices.” The document also mentions payments for services involving “face detection,” “advanced face search,” and a “dark web data feed.”
GPS doesn’t send anything - except maybe a ping to some server to get the first fix quicker of you didn’t use it for a long time, but this is completely optional.
Good that all roms and cell phones that should be usable as a phone are dependent on SS7… Nice that there are also silent sms and other crap stories…