Secret Service Bought Phone Location Data from Apps, Contract Confirms
▻https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgxk3g/secret-service-phone-location-data-babel-street
An internal Secret Service document describes the purchase of Locate X, a product that uses location data harvested from ordinary apps. The Secret Service paid for a product that gives the agency access to location data generated by ordinary apps installed on peoples’ smartphones, an internal Secret Service document confirms. The sale highlights the issue of law enforcement agencies buying information, and in particular location data, that they would ordinarily need a warrant or court (...)
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