Big Brother Is Watching You!

Every time you turn on your cell phone... I don't mean just when you are talking but rather every couple of minute or so you phone checks with a cell tower saying "Hey this is me and I am here. Any calls for me?"

And ICE has a device that mimics a cell phone towel to get your and every phone around to squeal on you.

How ICE Is Using Fake Cell Towers To Spy On People’s Phones

Forbes: The Wiretap

ByThomas Brewster

September 9, 2025

It’s been some time since Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been seen using a tool known as a Stingray, or a cell-site simulator, in its attempts to find and remove undocumented immigrants. The tool tricks a phone into thinking it’s a cell tower, and when a suspect’s device connects, the cops can trace its location. Its use is controversial because anyone in the same area as the target is at risk of having their information exposed.

In a recently-unsealed search warrant reviewed by Forbes, ICE used such a cell-site simulator in an attempt to track down an individual in Orem, Utah. The suspect had been ordered to leave the U.S. in 2023, but is believed to still be in the country. Investigators learned last month that before going to Utah, he’d escaped prison in Venezuela where he was serving a sentence for murder, according to the warrant. He’s also suspected of being linked to gang activity in the country, investigators said.

They had a warrant to search for him but...

But the case shows that, despite having been criticized by civil rights groups for using Stingrays during the last Trump administration, ICE continues to use the technology. Earlier this year, new media publication Straight Arrow News said it had analysed “mobile network anomalies” around a Washington state protest against ICE raids that were consistent with Stingray use.

Forbes found contract records showing ICE purchased nearly $1 million worth of “cell site simulator vehicles” in May this year, indicating it’s taking the surveillance tool fully mobile. That was part of a contract first signed under the Biden administration in 2024.

So your cell phone maybe ratting you out to the feds!

In a Forbes profile, Flock Safety shows off its drones, car tracking and AI-powered surveillance tools, all part of an effort to dislodge police tech giant Axon from the top of the market. “I plan to go take them out,” says CEO Garrett Langley.

ICE signed a contract with facial recognition company Clearview AI last week, worth nearly $10 million. It’ll be used, in part, to identify people assaulting ICE officers.

Big Brother is watching you... as we sink into authoritarianism and the government starts to go after our right to exists this is a very scary. The genie is not going back in the bottle.

Tell me do you trust Trump with this technology?