Abuse
Tracking phones to an abortion clinic
2024Reporters used Babel Street's Locate X to trace a phone's movements to and from an abortion clinic — proving warrantless tracking of sensitive visits via ad data.
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Benji Hutchinson
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Appointed Chief Executive Officer of Babel Street on May 13, 2025, after joining as Chief Revenue Officer in October 2024; he has more than 20 years of experience in identity-related technologies, with prior senior roles at Paravision, NEC Corporation, and IDEMIA.
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Agencies buy location data to skip warrants
2020Military and law-enforcement agencies bought access to Locate X to track phones without warrants, exploiting the data-broker loophole around the Fourth Amendment.
- ↳Means of Control — Byron Tau (Crown), 2024