GoKawiilBorder Patrol Uses Financial Data to Flag Americans for Local Police Stops
404 Media reports that Border Patrol's Predictive Intelligence Targeting Teams (PITT) analyze Americans' financial transaction patterns to identify people they suspect of crimes, then tip off local police who stop them under unrelated pretexts. In one case, Montana driver Kyle William Olson was pulled over for an obstructed license plate after a PITT agent flagged his finances as resembling narcotics trafficking patterns, leading to DUI and drug charges over cannabis products from his legal California job.