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Babel Street, best known for its open-source intelligence (OSINT) tools for analyzing social media and the like, sells location data as part of a secret add-on service called “Locate X.” Venntel, a subsidiary of marketing data company Gravy Analytics, has sold raw location data to several different US agencies, including ICE, Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and the FBI. And broker X-Mode paid app developers around 3 cents per user per month for access to location data, then sold it directly to defense contractors.
Inside Fog Data Science, the Secretive Company Selling Mass Surveillance to Local Police
Bennett Cyphers
After the 9/11 attacks, “Why do they hate us?” was the constant question. Yet Bin Laden’s motives were neither unknowable nor obscure. September 11 was, in large part, retaliation against the United States for its empire of bases.
How to Hide an Empire
Daniel Immerwahr
As Yogiraj Achala reminds us, “What are you not seeing because you are seeing what you are seeing?”
The Yamas & Niyamas
Deborah Adele
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