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Recently, immigration and customs enforcement invited its staff to try out a new app. So this app is called Mobile Companion.

It's made by Motorola, but it can team up with data from Thompson Reuters.

That's Joseph Cox, a co-founder of 404 Media.

People may not actually be aware of this, but Thompson Reuters doesn't just run the Reuters

new service. It also sells a bunch of personal data to government and private clients as well, names,

addresses, all of this other sort of personal information.

The kind of information that ICE really values in its mass deportation campaign.

So the agency reached out to all staffers working on enforcement

and removal. And told all of those personnel, hey, come out, come and check out this app. It's pretty

cool. I'm paraphrasing, obviously, but here are the capabilities that you can use if you wish to do so

in the field.

How does the app work exactly?

So an ICE officer will take the app installed on their phone. They will then point it at anybody's license plate, take a photo, and that will be added to

this database of billions of

other scans.

Scans that are collected from cameras across the US, including from police dash cams.

So with this app in ICE officer's hands, they can add to that database.

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