Customs and Border Protection employees used sensitive government databases to contact their crushes, spy on their exes, and track their coworkers’ cellphones.
A trove of government records obtained by Wired has revealed the astonishing ways in which government employees abused surveillance systems to extract information over the past decade. In one instance, a CBP officer pulled contact information from trusted-traveler applications to ask women out. Another Department of Homeland Security officer used “ad-tech derived mobile location data.”
The data, obtained from 2009 to 2022, document nearly 300 instances in which information intended to aid law enforcement was used for the personal gain of individuals within the federal government. Of those hundreds of cases, just 138 were brought to management for review, according to the report.
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