New research released this week shows that over the past few years the US Department of Homeland Security has collected DNA data of nearly 2,000 US citizens . The activity raises questions about legality and oversight given that DHS has been putting the information into an FBI crime database. Some of the genetic data is from US citizens as young as 14.

The US Secret Service said on Tuesday that it had discovered facilities across the “New York tristate area” running so-called SIM servers —devices that manage and coordinate 100,000 SIM cards at a time for illicit operations. The Secret Service warned, though, that in addition to being used by cybercriminals for scamming, the apparatuses could also be used to launch critical infrastructure attacks that could disrupt mobile networks.

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