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ICE wants ad tech companies to cough up info about their tracking tools
Maybe all that pearl-clutching about consumer privacy in the connected TV ecosystem and other regions of the internet isn’t so crazy, after all.
The embattled Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has issued a request for information, seeking insight from advertising tech companies “to better understand how the industry’s commercial Big Data and ad tech providers can directly support investigations activities.”
The RFI, issued Jan. 23, one day before the ICE shooting death of Minnesota ER nurse Alexander Pretti in Minnesota, adds that the government is also “seeking to understand the current state of ad-tech compliant and location data services available to federal investigative and operational entities, considering regulatory constraints and privacy expectations of support investigations activities.”
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