Inside One Of Big Brother's 'Location Harvesting' Contractors, Which Tracks 'Hundreds Of Millions' Of Phones

[GURPS]

Anomaly Six holds contracts with several branches of the US Government - although they told the Journal that they 'restrict the sale of US mobile phone movement data to nongovernmental, private sector clients,' according to the report. Private sector clients - typically marketing companies or others in the advertising space - buy and sell geolocation data, sometimes 'reselling it to government agencies or contractors' according to the report.

And as the Journal notes, in the case of Anomaly Six, "the direct collection of such data by a business closely linked to US national security agencies is unusual."

Founded by defense-contracting veterans who spent most of their careers in close contact with government agencies, tailored their operation to interface with national-security, according to interviews and court records.

"Anomaly Six is a veteran-owned small business that processes and visualizes location data sourced from mobile devices for analytics and insights," the company told The Journal in response to questions for the article. "We leverage detailed location data from numerous first-party sources to provide insights into groups, behaviors, and patterns."

The company acknowledges the "intense scrutiny" surrounding government access to private location data - but insists they aren't breaking any laws, and that the data it peddles is 'commercially available.'

Anomaly Six said it would support regulation to require more disclosure by apps of how data is collected and used. The exact apps the company partners with couldn’t be determined and the company declined to comment, citing confidentiality agreements. The partnerships between data brokers and app makers are typically closely held trade secrets within the world of commercial-data sales. -WSJ

https://www.zerohedge.com/technolog...esting-contractors-tracking-hundreds-millions

 

[glhs837]

Well, they get away with it for plate tracking, so they are going to keep going until the law reigns them in. Which it wont. Because you need a new law thats says "THOU SHALT NOT SURVEIL YOUR CITIZENS UNLESS THEY DO SOMETHING THAT 'WARRANTS' IT!!!!!!"

 

[DaSDGuy]

I usually keep location services turned off. Not sure if that stops them from tracking because 911 tracking can't be turned off.

 

[glhs837]

I usually keep location services turned off. Not sure if that stops them from tracking because 911 tracking can't be turned off.

The only way to be sure would be to Faraday cage (RF) shield your phone. But if course every time you use it, it will betray you.

 

[DaSDGuy]

The only way to be sure would be to Faraday cage (RF) shield your phone. But if course every time you use it, it will betray you.

Nowadays if they are tracking me by phone they see I'm usually at home. Knock yourselves out guys.