#USA #Surveillance #Privacy #LocateX #PoliceState: "Atlas Privacy, a data removal company that is also suing various data brokers using a novel New Jersey law that protects the addresses of police, judges, prosecutors and their families, gained access to a free trial of Locate X, performed lookups of sensitive locations, and shared videos of those lookups with journalists from 404 Media, NOTUS, Haaretz, Krebs on Security, and the New York Times. Crucially, although Babel Street primarily sells Locate X to law enforcement or government agencies, a private investigator who works with Atlas was able to access the free trial by saying they were an investigator who may work with the government in the future, and not a current law enforcement official. No caveats were given on using the tool, such as locations or use cases, Atlas said.
In a document available online, Babel Street says the tool brings results of its products “into the physical world.”
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The demonstration videos show that Locate X has various features that can make interpreting the location data easy. Clicking an option called “clustered” shows the device’s most frequently visited locations, which often pinpoints a residential address or place of work. The “animation” feature shows point-by-point where a device traveled inside a specific time period, rather than displaying all of the locations at once. A “signal proximity check” shows which other nearby locations the device went to in a short period of time. And users can set a specific search to “active” which will provide “a daily run to check for updates.” Meaning, that a user could monitor the abortion clinic or other locations for signs of new visitors. The data itself has a delay of around two to three days and results can take a few minutes or even up to 40 minutes to display results, according to the tests. The tool can cost around $28,000, according to procurement documents."
https://www.404media.co/inside-the-u-s-government-bought-tool-that-can-track-phones-at-abortion-clinics/
