A Surveillance Firm Reportedly Tracked NSA and CIA Employees as a Product Demo
AnonTechie writes:
Anomaly 6 claims to be able to track billions of mobile phones, including those belonging to some of America's top spy agencies.
There exists an underworld data broker market devoted to auctioning off your information to the highest bidder. It's an industry populated by professional creeps who buy and sell mobile data collected via invasive if legal means, often from nosy apps. A new report shows that one such company demonstrated just how creepy it could be by spying on some of America's three letter agencies to show off its product.
The Intercept and Tech Inquiry report that a little-known Virginia data firm called Anomaly Six, or A6, displayed its surveillance capabilities by tracking mobile phones used by employees of the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency. The company reportedly uses highly accurate GPS data purchased from mobile apps to triangulate when and where a specific phone user is at any given time. This, along with other collected data points, allows the company to track 3 billion devices in "real time," marketing materials viewed by the outlets suggests.
The alleged snooping on America's spies was revealed during a demo unveiled at a meeting between A6 and another surveillance startup, Zignal Labs, which is known for sucking up reams of social media data from Twitter. The two companies were in the midst of talks regarding a potential partnership and, to impress Zignal, A6's rep, Brendon Clark, allegedly used the firm's tech to track a mobile phone from the parking lot of the NSA to a military training base in the Middle East.
[Source]: Gizmodo
So, who else is left to be tracked ??
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