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Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance. CYBER is Motherboard's podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet.
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The Secret Service paid around $400,000 each year from 2020 to 2022 for access to the Virtual Crime Center, according to procurement records. The tool is designed to be a one-stop shop for data searches that would ordinarily require multiple disparate systems. Motherboard also found Accurint purchases by the State Department, the Food and Drug Administration, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, the U.S. Coast Guard, the Department of the Navy, and the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency. The Intercept previously covered ICE’s purchase of LexisNexis data. Documents obtained by immigrant advocacy organization Just Futures Law later found ICE searched that data over one million times in seven months.Do you know about any other sales of data to government agencies? We'd love to hear from you. Using a non-work phone or computer, you can contact Joseph Cox securely on Signal on +44 20 8133 5190, Wickr on josephcox, or email joseph.cox@vice.com.
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