ATF cancels controversial commercial geolocation contract

Bogdan Hofbauer

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) canceled a contract with Penlink that used ad-surveillance technologies to track the location of Americans. The contract was canceled a little more than a month after ATF Director Robert Cekada acknowledged under questioning from Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas, in a congressional hearing that the agency was purchasing the geolocation data of Americans through a contract for “an ad-tech type thing” that would provide the agency with

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