ICE says it bought Paragon’s spyware to use in drug trafficking cases

ICE confirmed it bought and used commercial spyware from Paragon Solutions for Homeland Security Investigations, framing it as a tool to counter encrypted communications in criminal and counterterrorism work; the report notes the contract was suspended pending review over human-rights concerns and later reactivated, and highlights prior instances where Paragon spyware was used to target journalists and activists, raising constitutional and civil-liberties objections.