Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Dec 31, 2024
#Location Data Firm Offers to Help #Cops Track Targets via #Doctor Visits
#FogDataScience is a #locationtracking company that takes data harvested from #smartphones and makes it accessible to #LawEnforcement. A document obtained by 404 Media shows the company explicitly says it will use doctors visits to unmask a target if needed. In its 2022 investigation, the EFF found Fog claimed to have “billions” of data points concerning more than 250 million devices
https://www.404media.co/location-data-firm-offers-to-help-cops-track-targets-via-doctor-visits/
Location Data Firm Offers to Help Cops Track Targets via Doctor Visits

Fog Data Science is a location tracking company that takes data harvested from smartphones and makes it accessible to cops. A document obtained by 404 Media shows the company explicitly says it will use doctors visits to unmask a target if needed.

404 Media
The Threat CodexDec 17, 2024
Location Data Firm Offers to Help Cops Track Targets via Doctor Visits
#FogDataScience
https://www.404media.co/email/b6c3cbb1-6d18-4841-bae4-7269ca20cdd6/
Location Data Firm Offers to Help Cops Track Targets via Doctor Visits

Fog Data Science is a location tracking company that takes data harvested from smartphones and makes it accessible to cops. A document obtained by 404 Media shows the company explicitly says it will use doctors visits to unmask a target if needed.

404 Media
gtbarryDec 13, 2024

Location data firm helps police find out when suspects visited their doctor

A location-tracking company that sells its services to police departments is apparently using addresses and coordinates of doctors' and lawyers' offices and other types of locations to help cops compile lists of places visited by suspects

#FogDataScience #surveillance #tracking #police #privacy #location #technology #tech

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/12/location-data-firm-helps-police-find-out-when-suspects-visited-their-doctor/

Location data firm helps police find out when suspects visited their doctor

Leaked form shows how Fog Data helps cops find where suspects have been and when.

Ars Technica
Matt WillemsenApr 21, 2024
Fourth Amendment is Not For Sale Act Passed the House, Now it Should Pass the Senate
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/fourth-amendment-not-sale-act-passed-house-now-it-should-pass-senate #databroker #loophole #FogDataScience #LawEnforcement
Fourth Amendment is Not For Sale Act Passed the House, Now it Should Pass the Senate

The Fourth Amendment is Not For Sale Act, H.R.4639, originally introduced in the Senate by Senator Ron Wyden in 2021, has now made the important and historic step of passing the U.S. House of Representatives. In an era when it often seems like Congress cannot pass much-needed privacy protections,...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Br0m3xSep 7, 2022

"Fog states that it has access to a “near real-time” database of billions of geolocation signals derived from smartphones. It sells subscriptions to a service, which the company usually billed as “Fog Reveal,” that lets law enforcement look up location data in its database through a website. The smartphone signals in Fog’s database include latitude, longitude, timestamp, and a device ID.""

#eff #privacy #security #surveillance #FogDataScience

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/inside-fog-data-science-secretive-company-selling-mass-surveillance-local-police

Inside Fog Data Science, the Secretive Company Selling Mass Surveillance to Local Police

A data broker has been selling raw location data about individual people to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, EFF has learned. This personal data isn’t gathered from cell phone towers or tech giants like Google — it’s obtained by the broker via thousands of different apps on Android and iOS app stores as part of the larger location data marketplace.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Mufasa Sep 2, 2022

A year-long investigation by EFF has uncovered Fog Data Science, a mass surveillance company that buys the geolocation of hundreds of millions of devices in the U.S. and maps them for police to search, often without a warrant.

#FogDataScience #MassSurveillance #LawEnforcement #WarrantlessSearch
https://twitter.com/eff/status/1565374577072431104

What is Fog Data Science? Why is the Surveillance Company so Dangerous?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/what-fog-data-science-why-surveillance-company-so-dangerous

Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget’

https://apnews.com/article/technology-police-government-surveillance-d395409ef5a8c6c3f6cdab5b1d0e27ef

EFF on Twitter

“#BREAKING A year-long investigation by EFF has uncovered Fog Data Science, a mass surveillance company that buys the geolocation of hundreds of millions of devices in the U.S. and maps them for police to search, often without a warrant. https://t.co/tbBFuNKsn8”

Twitter
heise online (inoffiziell)Sep 2, 2022
In den USA nutzt auch die lokale Polizei ein mächtiges Überwachungswerkzeug. Für wenig Geld können Standorte von 250 Millionen Mobilgeräten nachverfolgt werden.
"Massenüberwachung zum Sparpreis": US-Polizei kann Bewegungsprofile analysieren
"Massenüberwachung zum Sparpreis": US-Polizei kann Bewegungsprofile analysieren

In den USA nutzt auch die lokale Polizei ein mächtiges Überwachungswerkzeug. Für wenig Geld können Standorte von 250 Millionen Mobilgeräten nachverfolgt werden.

heise online
📡 RightToPrivacy & Tech TipsSep 1, 2022

#FogDataScience: Databroker Using Thousands Of Android / iPhone Apps To Provide Local Police, Raw (Loc) Data

🚔 📡 📍📱🌍

#News #Infosec #Privacy #anonymity #GPS #Android #iPhone #EFF #4thAmendment #Law #SurveillanceCapitalism #DataBrokers

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/inside-fog-data-science-secretive-company-selling-mass-surveillance-local-police

Inside Fog Data Science, the Secretive Company Selling Mass Surveillance to Local Police

A data broker has been selling raw location data about individual people to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, EFF has learned. This personal data isn’t gathered from cell phone towers or tech giants like Google — it’s obtained by the broker via thousands of different apps on Android and iOS app stores as part of the larger location data marketplace.

Electronic Frontier Foundation