In FOIA Suit, ACLU Seeks Info On Cell Phone Data Use In Immigration Enforcement

(December 4, 2020, 1:01 PM EST) -- NEW YORK — Citing information culled from “[m]ultiple news sources,” the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) complaint against three federal government agencies in New York federal court on Dec. 2 to obtain information about their “purchase of access to databases containing precise” cell phone location information (CPLI) “for millions of people” that the organization says are used “for immigration enforcement and other purposes” (American Civil Liberties Union v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security, et al., No. 1:20-cv-10083, S.D. N.Y.)....

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