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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Jeff Chapman
Founder & Vice Chairman (former CEO)
Former U.S. Navy intelligence officer and combat veteran who founded the company in 2009 as Agincourt Solutions, rebranding it Babel Street in 2014; he served as CEO for over a decade before transitioning to Vice Chairman of the board in 2022. He previously held a senior role at the U.S. Treasury and is a U.S. Naval Academy alumnus with graduate degrees from UVA and Harvard.
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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