#locatex — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/creators-police-location-tracking-tool-arent-vetting-buyers-heres-how-protect

Babel Street operates a tool called Locate X which collects phone location info from a LARGE variety of sources. The tool is intended for use by Law Enforcement

The worrisome part is that Babel Street is not properly vetting users. Simply claiming to potentially work WITH Law Enforcement at some point in the future, is enough to gain access. Resulting in a Privacy Nightmare for every phone user everywhere.

#Privacy #Security #BabelStreet #LocateX #EFF

The Global #Surveillance Free-for-All in Mobile #Ad Data
#BabelStreet’s #LocateX platform also allows customers to track individual mobile users by their Mobile Advertising ID or MAID. Babel Street can offer this tracking capability by consuming location data and other identifying information that is collected by many websites and broadcast to dozens and sometimes hundreds of ad networks that may wish to bid on showing their ad to a particular user.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/10/the-global-surveillance-free-for-all-in-mobile-ad-data/ #privacy

Inside the #US Government-Bought Tool That Can Track #Phones
#Privacy advocates gained access to a powerful tool thatt can track #smartphones.
The tool is called #LocateX made by #BabelStreet. Data comes from two main sources: ordinary apps, whose developers sell users’ location data to a broker. The other is a process called real-time bidding, in which online ad industry try to outbid one another to have an adve be delivered to a certain demographic of user
https://www.404media.co/inside-the-u-s-government-bought-tool-that-can-track-phones-at-abortion-clinics/ #surveillance

Our investigation found that this fine-grained #data is being sold in an #unregulated market. There’s little to no vetting over who gets access to it or how they use it. Paired w/people-search platforms, the ability to freely mine through data like it can pose serious #privacy concerns.

#Atlas used #LocateX to search for #phones at locations like #abortion clinics, courthouses & the homes of #law enforcement officers & prosecutors.

#law #technology #ReproductiveRights

#DataBrokers claim the info is fully anonymized. But in reality, it can easily expose someone’s #identity, & can potentially reveal some of the most private moments of a person’s life—like crossing state lines to go to an #abortion clinic.

NOTUS, along w/journalists from NYT, 404Media, Haaretz & independent #cybersecurity reporter Brian Krebs, were given access to nearly 2hrs of footage of #AtlasPrivacy using #BabelStreet’s tracking tool, #LocateX.

#law #technology #ReproductiveRights #privacy

The Global Surveillance Free-for-All in Mobile Ad Data – Krebs on Security

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/10/the-global-surveillance-free-for-all-in-mobile-ad-data/

#PrivacyMatters #SurveillanceCapitalism #StopWarrantlessTracking #LocateX #BabelStreet

Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics

https://www.404media.co/email/a400f89b-10e8-4910-9ee3-ac83b70020aa/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

#PrivacyMatters #SurveillanceCapitalism #StopWarrantlessTracking #LocateX #BabelStreet #ReproductiveFreedom #ProChoice

U.S. Government Contractor Embedded Software in Apps to Track Phones
https://www.androidauthority.com/government-tracking-apps-1145989/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-government-contractor-embedded-software-in-apps-to-track-phones-11596808801?mod=djemalertNEWS
https://www.protocol.com/government-buying-location-data
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#AnomalySix #BabelStreet #LocateX #GravyAnalytics #LocationData #privacy #secrecy