Cowboy Concealments Streetlights

Cowboy Concealments Streetlights
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Deployment Status	Ongoing
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City	Houston (TX), Lorton, San Antonio (TX), Dallas (TX)
Country	USA
Involved Entities	Unknown Institution 0056, Obsidian Integration
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Technology Deployed	Unknown Products 0028
Information Certainty	Speculative
Primary sources	1
Datasets Used	Unknown Dataset 0064
Deployment Type	Surveillance
runs search software
managed by	Cowboy Concealments LLC
used by	Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
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Information Certainty	0
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Information Certainty: Speculative

Deployment Purpose: Surveillance

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Product Deployed	Unknown Products 0028
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Datasets	Unknown Dataset 0064
Search software

Status and Events:

Status	Ongoing
Events
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Users:

Involved Entities	Unknown Institution 0056 Obsidian Integration
Managed by	Cowboy Concealments LLC
Used by	Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)

Location:

City	Houston (TX) Lorton San Antonio TX Dallas (TX)
Country ⠉	USA USA USA USA

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Description

Cowboy Concealments LLC supplies technologies to federal agencies and local law enforcement. Details of the exact software used are not known, however some contracts were uncovered with Obsidian Integration. It can be speculated that facial recognition may be in use as both the DEA and ICE have been found to use such capabilities. Cowboy Concealments provides customised concealment 'solutions' to such agencies.

The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have hidden an undisclosed number of covert surveillance cameras inside streetlights around the country, federal contracting documents reveal. According to government procurement data, the DEA has paid a Houston, Texas company called Cowboy Streetlight Concealments LLC roughly $22,000 since June 2018 for “video recording and reproducing equipment.” ICE paid out about $28,000 to Cowboy Streetlight Concealments over the same period of time. It’s unclear where the DEA and ICE streetlight cameras have been installed, or where the next deployments will take place. ICE offices in Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio have provided funding for recent acquisitions from Cowboy Streetlight Concealments; the DEA’s most recent purchases were funded by the agency’s Office of Investigative Technology, which is located in Lorton, Virginia 1

In addition to streetlights, the DEA has also placed covert surveillance cameras inside traffic barrels, a purpose-built product offered by a number of manufacturers. And as Quartz reported last month, the DEA operates a network of digital speed-display road signs that contain automated license plate reader technology within them 1

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