US Immigration Agency contract with spyware company poses risk to rights.

https://text.hrw.org/news/2024/10/17/us-immigration-agency-contract-spyware-company-poses-risk-rights

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timewarp@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

So the government decided to abuse the most vulnerable people. Welcome to America!

paridoxical@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

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.