Critical

🎯 Mercenary Spyware Deployment

ICE reactivated contracts for Paragon Solutions "Graphite" phone-implant spyware, creating domestic surveillance infrastructure previously reserved for foreign intelligence operations.

Paragon Solutions Ltd.
Israeli Surveillance Firm
Products: Graphite mobile implants, network infiltration tools
Clients: ICE, unspecified federal agencies
Risk Level: Critical
Critical

📡 Telecom Infrastructure Exploitation

Legacy SS7 signaling protocols enable real-time location tracking and SMS interception. “Hemisphere” provides warrant-light access to decades of call records through AT&T partnership.

AT&T Hemisphere Program
Public-Private Intelligence Partnership
Data Scope: decades of call records
Access Model: terminal queries
Legal Basis: administrative subpoenas
SS7 Exploit Market
Commercial Surveillance Infrastructure
Services: location, SMS interception, routing manipulation
Clients: LE, private investigators, nation-states
Protection: carrier-dependent
Moderate

📱 Cell-Site Simulator Networks

IMSI-catcher deployment by federal, state, and local agencies creates dragnet surveillance with uneven warrant requirements.

Harris Corporation StingRay Network
Surveillance Equipment
Shielding: vendor NDAs limit transparency
Bystander Impact: mass device capture
Critical

🗂️ Data Broker Intelligence Complex

Location and behavioral data markets enable warrantless surveillance via purchase, sidestepping constitutional protections.

Verity/X-Mode/Outlogic
Location Data Broker
Status: FTC ban on sensitive location sales (2024)
Kochava
Mobile Analytics & Broker
Status: ongoing FTC litigation

🕸️ Corruption Network Visualization

Relationships between surveillance vendors, data brokers, government agencies, and platforms. Drag nodes to explore.

Legend: ● Agencies ● Vendors ● Brokers ● Platforms ● Telecom/Programs

🔗 Key Relationships

Surveillance-Industrial Complex

Core: ICE ↔ Paragon (Graphite)

Bypass: admin subpoenas over warrants

Telecom Intelligence Partnership

Core: AT&T ↔ Hemisphere ↔ federal agencies

Scope: decades of call records

Data Broker Ecosystem

Flow: apps → SDKs → aggregators → agencies

📅 Signal-Power Evolution Timeline

2001–2010: Foundation Era

Patriot Act expands surveillance; contractors integrate with IC.

2013: Snowden Revelations

Bulk collection + private partnerships exposed.

2018: Carpenter v. United States

Warrants for CSLI; broker loophole remains.

2020: Location Data Market

Military/LE purchases from brokers revealed.

2021: Facebook Papers

Governance failures and political influence dynamics.

2024–2025: Enforcement & Spyware Normalization

FTC acts on brokers; ICE reactivates Paragon contracts.

⚡ Immediate Stop-Gap Actions

Implement these measures to disrupt signal-power networks and restore oversight.

🛡️ Spyware Prohibition Framework
  1. Judge-signed warrants for mercenary spyware
  2. Public impact assessment + quarterly reports
  3. Vendor transparency; violations → liability
📡 Telecom Infrastructure Hardening
  1. SS7/roaming hardening + annual third-party audits
  2. Hemisphere transparency; FOIA compliance
  3. Data minimization + purge timelines
🗂️ Data Broker Market Containment
  1. Embargo: clinics, schools, protests, worship, shelters
  2. Warrants for any location purchases
  3. Real-time public log of broker relationships
🎯 Cell-Site Simulator Reform
  1. Mirror H.R.6194 warrant standard
  2. Bystander purge attestations
  3. Monthly usage statistics
📺 Platform Governance
  1. Algorithmic transparency & ad disclosure
  2. Independent appeals + portability
🏢 Corporate Influence Transparency
  1. 24-hour lobbying disclosures
  2. PR client transparency
  3. Anti-astroturf penalties
  4. 5-year cooling-off period

📋 Implementation Toolkit

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Model Ordinance Template