US Feds purchased 'vast quantities' of private citizens location data

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) released a report Monday that reveals how the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is 'sidestepping our Fourth Amendment right' by accessing 'vast quantities of people's cellphone location information.'

The records show DHS collected data on more than 336,000 location data points across North America that was gathered from apps on millions of people's smartphones.

The data points allow DHS, Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), to 'identify and track specific individuals or everyone in a particular area.'

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