The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has purchased a sinister surveillance tool that could allow ICE officers to monitor unsuspecting members of the U.S. public as they go about their day. The outlet states that HSI and ICE selected PenLink’s Tangles and Webloc because the package offers “forensic and predictive analytics,” which enables analysts to correlate those movements with social media. Anadolu/Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu via Getty ImagesThe purchase reverses ICE’s own January 2024 pledge that it had stopped purchasing “commercial telemetry data,” according to 404 Media. A screenshot from the procurement document published by 404 Media. Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty ImagesDHS declined to confirm or deny capabilities in a statement to 404 Media, instead attacking media motives.