ICE faces heat after agents install thousands of personal apps, VPNs on official phones

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America's immigration cops have pushed back against an official probe that concluded their lax mobile device security potentially put sensitive government information at risk of being stolen by foreign snoops.

Between April 27 and August 17, the US Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General conducted an audit of equipment managed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the agency's IT policies.

This included third-party file sharing services and virtual private networks (VPN), outdated messaging platforms, and apps developed by companies banned from US government IT systems.

To be fair, some of the ICE-approved apps sound equally concerning, such as "one ICE-owned application allows ICE personnel to capture and search biometric information of people they encounter in real-time."

Additionally, DHS, in its response to the audit, disagreed that ICE security controls did not reduce the risk to federal mobile devices and their sensitive information.

Homeland Security also claimed the percentage of ICE-managed devices that did not have mobile threat defense capability installed is significantly lower than the inspector general's audit number.

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Wait, you mean goons that had no problem literally putting children in cages are fuckheads? No way!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
America's immigration cops have pushed back against an official probe that concluded their lax mobile device security potentially put sensitive government information at risk of being stolen by foreign snoops.
Between April 27 and August 17, the US Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General conducted an audit of equipment managed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the agency's IT policies.
This included third-party file sharing services and virtual private networks (VPN), outdated messaging platforms, and apps developed by companies banned from US government IT systems.
To be fair, some of the ICE-approved apps sound equally concerning, such as "one ICE-owned application allows ICE personnel to capture and search biometric information of people they encounter in real-time."
Additionally, DHS, in its response to the audit, disagreed that ICE security controls did not reduce the risk to federal mobile devices and their sensitive information.
Homeland Security also claimed the percentage of ICE-managed devices that did not have mobile threat defense capability installed is significantly lower than the inspector general's audit number.
The original article contains 612 words, the summary contains 173 words. Saved 72%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!