Sources: Israeli surveillance vendors like Bsightful, backed by the US public company Verint, hook into ad exchange systems to siphon app location data
This year has seen a rush amongst government snoops for a new and sometimes contentious data set: location data grabbed by smartphone popular apps.
New - Israeli surveillance dealers are grabbing location data from smartphone apps. The way they are doing it is wild. It's akin to spies infiltrating the advertising ecosystem to hoover up vast amounts of information. They've been at it for 2 years. https://www.forbes.com/...
If you work in the either the ads or surveillance industry, and you know about these “white label” Demand Side Platforms, get in touch. Signal number and email in the bio. https://twitter.com/...
This location surveillance likely been happening since the first mobile app embedded an ad library and asked for location info which was as far back as 2011. https://www.forbes.com/...