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Krebs on Security: The Global Surveillance Free-for-All in Mobile Ad Data

Last week, Atlas invoked Daniel’s Law in a lawsuit (PDF) against Babel Street, a little-known technology company incorporated in Reston, Va. Babel Street’s core product allows customers to draw a digital polygon around nearly any location on a map of the world, and view a slightly dated (by a few days) time-lapse history of the mobile devices seen coming in and out of the specified area.

So by my read, anyone, with a free trial, can draw a box around a house, and see where the residents of that house go. Or draw a box around a business (gun shop, abortion clinic, etc) and see where the customers and staff of that business go...

Brian Krebs thread on infosec.exchange