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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Individual
Ellen McCarthy
Board of Advisors member
Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) with roughly 30 years in the intelligence community, including the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and Coast Guard Intelligence; appointed to Babel Street's Board of Advisors in 2021.
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Companies
Incidents in their orbit
Investigation
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