SURVEILLANCE RUNG

Data brokers / surveillance infrastructure

I may never have dealt with them. Why do they have a profile on me? Commercial identity, location, advertising, biometric, and intelligence infrastructure that connects data generated across the other surveillance rungs.

Commercial location intelligence

Babel Street Locate X / commercial location intelligence

DOCUMENTED FEDERAL USE

Locate X uses commercially obtained mobile-advertising location data to support device-location analysis. FOIA litigation and released records document federal contracts involving CBP and ICE.

NATIONWIDE / APPLIES IN ILCOLLECTS IL RESIDENT DATA
HOW YOU ENCOUNTER IT
Carrying a mobile device whose apps or advertising ecosystem generate commercially available advertising/location telemetry.
DATA
Mobile advertising identifier · Device location history · Geofence-associated location events
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