Penlink, formerly known as CobWebs, is an Israeli company that sold its WebLoc and Tangles software to ICE. WebLoc monitors location data that amounts to spying without a warrant while Tangles builds profiles based on mined social media data.
Penlink's software has also been been purchased by the DEA, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and sheriffs' offices and city police departments. Derek Maltz is an American government official who served as the acting administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration 

ICE's main database was built by Palantir.

Previous attempts to monitor consumers' location data for immigration enforcement were found to be illegal.

This video was posted by a leftist, but she makes some valid points about government surveillance. The tools that ICE is using may be used against US citizens when a new regime comes to power.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement will soon be tracking cell phone data.

The immigration law enforcement agency has bought access to an "all-in-one" surveillance tool that gives it updated location data from hundreds of millions of phones, according to ICE documents obtained by 404 Media. ICE reportedly prefers the service because it also peels information from social media accounts.

Redacted documents make reference to two products, both produced by the contractor Penlink. They are known as Tangles and WebLoc. Both were created by an Israeli company called Cobwebs, which merged into Penlink in 2023. ICE has reportedly spent upwards of $5 million for access to the software, Forbes reported last month.

Previous attempts to monitor consumers' location data for immigration enforcement were found to be illegal. A sweeping records request by the ACLU in 2022 found that DHS had obtained more than 336,000 location data points across North America by scraping app user data on hundreds of millions of phones during Donald Trump's first term.