Location Sharing With Homeland Security
What A Day
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Do You Know How Homeland Security Collects Location Data?
How did homeland security get this data? And did they directly pull it information from users phones, or what? Ye, it's a really good question. How it usually works is this, people give aps on their phone permission to collect data, including location data. Often they don't realize they're granting that permission. Then surveillance companies such what the a c w calls shadowy data brokers, like babele street and vintal, those are the two mentioned in the documents released yesterday. The pany collects more than 15 billion location points from over 250 million selphones and other mobile devices every day.
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