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[分享] U.S. government purchases global mobile phone user information

[分享] U.S. government purchases global mobile phone user information

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, an American enterprise named analog six has embedded its own software development kit into many mobile phone applications to track the location information of hundreds of millions of mobile phones around the world. At the same time, the enterprise resells the information to the U.S. government without the knowledge of users.
According to the report published by the Wall Street Journal, the court records and the interview conducted by the newspaper show that anonymous six was founded by two veterans who undertook defense contracts. For most of his career, he worked closely with U.S. government agencies. Marketing materials show that the enterprise can obtain user location data from more than 500 mobile applications, some of which are realized by embedding its software development kit into mobile applications. It is reported that mobile app developers usually allow third-party companies to embed software development packages into their own programs in order to earn a certain fee, and these third-party companies turn to profit by selling the data obtained from the applications. It is difficult for users to know whether such software development packages are embedded in the application, because most privacy policies do not disclose this information.
The report points out that according to court records, locate x adopted some opinions of U.S. government officials in its design and was widely used by U.S. military intelligence departments after development. According to the US federal contract data, Babel street has also signed contracts with the US Department of homeland security, the US Department of justice and other agencies. It is reported that the collected mobile phone location information can be used for "life mode" analysis to help understand and predict the habits and behaviors of intelligence targets.
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