B.I. Incorporated

Discovered a subsidiary of Geo Group called B.I. Incorporated which is involved in personal surveillance technology known as electronic ankle collars. They provide a service that allows people to live in the community while being monitored during immigration proceedings and allows for the individual to work and move around freely relative to being housed in a detention facility. Geo Group was featured in a NY Time's article recently about said surveillance business but I do not remember B.I. Incorporated being definitively named as the subsidiary responsible. B.I. Incorporated portrays a very happy experience with joyful pictures on their website of people living life and going about day to day. The website does not go into detail of the ankle monitor technology or the cost to service one to the person being monitored. Another article by the NY Time's discussed the hardship that these ankle monitor surveillance companies can inflict on the people being monitored. The cost of being monitored is so burdensome costing hundreds of dollars at times with people unable to pay for the service leading to being possibly jailed for noncompliance. With the surveillance state as it is where your every movement is tracked by a corporation to provide data of foot fall or your whereabouts an ankle monitor seems archaic. Soon ICE will have all the data of immigrants from data brokers that provide a wealth of information of who they are and where they are. I have heard that some people in the immigrant communities are buying burner phones that are prepaid so as to avoid being scooped up in an ICE raid. Burner phones may not be enough because social media tracks your location and participating in social media creates more data that is collected by ICE's open source intelligence. The full power of the surveillance state will be brought onto the vulnerable immigrant communities with full on digital surveillance. This is not the beginning of such powers since they have been present due to fusion centers and public-private partnerships. The integration into the existing surveillance is what is new and why the Department of Homeland Security will be getting a windfall to invest into such technologies provided by either publicly traded corporations such as B.I. Incorporated with their expansion of surveillance products or private corporations that facilitate phone hacking like the likes of NSO Group or other spyware companies.

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