U.S. Police Quietly Buy Israeli Cellphone Tracking Tools

Posts from RightsDissent, Nick Cleveland-Stout, Responsible Statecraft, and GeneralMCNews report that police agencies in New York, Washington D.C., and Texas purchased real-time smart device monitoring technology from the Israeli firm Cognyte Solutions. The Responsible Statecraft article linked in the posts states that departments have bought the equipment since 2023. One post adds that the tools track social media to assign threat scores. Civil liberties group Defending Rights & Dissent highlights Fourth Amendment concerns over the purchases.