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US Immigration Agency contract with spyware company poses risk to rights. (text.hrw.org)
submitted 22 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

2 million is a very small contract in this context. More than likely this is for a targeted operation, like accessing the phones of known drug or human traffickers. They should absolutely disclose the nature of the contract to the public, but I have a hard time believing this is for some sort of mass surveillance or violation of privacy. The cost for that would be significantly higher from what I know.