Three Systems Are Listening to Your Street. None of Them Need You to Do Anything Wrong First.

A microphone on a pole is listening for gunshots near your home — and three separate government audits found it's wrong 85 to 89 percent of the time. A device that can fake a cell tower can pull your phone's location out of the air along with everyone else's nearby — and ICE's spending on them is growing, not shrinking. And a network of roughly 80 regional intelligence hubs built after 9/11 to catch terrorists spent over a decade compiling files on ordinary people instead — a 2012 Senate investigation found it never once caught a plot, and a 2026 case shows the same pattern is still happening.