- Earlier this year ICE ordered new vehicles equipped with smartphone-tracking hardware.
- Cell-tower simulating “Stingray” devices gather records on phones in their vicinity.
- Luckily, Android 16 includes new measure for detecting when you may be monitored in this fashion.
But we’re talking about a federal agency here, not local law enforcement. It’s been confirmed that systems they tried to keep secret exist for them to have direct access to traffic going through ISPs, so why wouldn’t they have set up something similar for wireless networks, that would eliminate the need to go through any corporate bureaucracy? To me it seems reasonable to assume that such programs exist without being divulged because it would be basically similar to what else has been confirmed to exist, and there’s a really obvious incentive.