The intelligence corps allegedly used cell phone signals to track the whereabouts of citizens across the country
A Federal Police (PF) launched this Thursday 16 a police investigation to investigate the possible use of a secret system to monitor the location of citizens throughout the national territory managed by the Brazilian intelligence agency (A basket). The investigations were opened at the request of the Ministry of Justice and Public Security.
The PF also stated that the information obtained by Abin in this monitoring can only be consulted, according to the law, by the judicial police, with judicial authorization.
This tool would allow the agency to obtain information relating to users of mobile devices which by law can only be consulted by the judicial police, subject to judicial authorisation.
— Federal Police (@policiafederal) March 16, 2023
According to the newspaper report The globeduring the first three years of the Bolsonaro government, the Brazilian intelligence agency (Abin) allegedly used, without any official protocol, a tool called “FirstMile” to track the swipes of up to 10,000 cell phone owners every 12 months.
Monitoring was possible on devices using 2G, 3G and 4G networks. To locate a person, all you had to do was type your phone number into the program and follow the latest location on a map.
Developed by Israeli company Cognyte (formerly Verint), ‘FirstMile’ relies on telecom towers installed in different regions to capture data from every phone device and then feed the disconnect history back to the cell phone owner. According to the report, it was also possible to create real-time alerts for a certain type of movement.
Source: Terra
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