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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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Adrian O. Pena used Securus between September 2016 and October 2017 while serving as a Deputy U.S. Marshal, according to the indictment. He did this by uploading fake documents to the Securus platform that he claimed gave him authority to obtain requested location data, the indictment adds. Pena was assigned to the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force in the Uvalde County Sheriff's Office in Texas, which had access to the system, according to the indictment. (Uvalde is the city where local police have been widely criticized for their failure to act in a mass shooting at Robb Elementary school in May where 19 children and two adults died).Do you have any more information abuses of location data? 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, OTR chat on jfcox@jabber.ccc.de, or email joseph.cox@vice.com.
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