A new report by Privacy International indicates “intelligence agencies in Colombia have been building robust tools to automatically collect vast amounts of data without judicial warrants and in defiance of a pledge to better protect privacy following a series of domestic spying scandals,” Associated Press reports. Monday’s report looks at the way police and state security agencies in the country are using what’s called the Integrated Record System—built by police in 2005 and “capable of collecting 100 million cell data and 20 million text message records per day without service providers' knowledge,” the report states. Privacy International calls oversight of the surveillance “questionable.”
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