Can an ethical spyware maker justify providing its tech to ICE? | TechCrunch

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- Paragon signed a $2 million contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in September 2024.
- The contract remains under review and has not yet taken effect.
- Paragon has so far not supplied ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations with its spyware tools, the company told TechCrunch.
- Since taking office in January, the Trump administration has authorized ICE to carry out large-scale immigration raids.
- ICE is poised to get a significantly larger budget following the passing of the Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Paragon, an Israeli spyware company that claims to operate as an ethical surveillance vendor, faced scrutiny when earlier this year Italy was caught using Paragons tools to spy on the phones of tw [+4532 chars]