Biden Regime and Feds are Buying Cell Phone Location Data on Millions of Americans Through Private Brokers â Same Type of Data Used by â2000 Mulesâ Investigators
Big brother just got a little bigger with the help of corporate America.
A new bombshell report by the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) has blown the lid off of the âvast, secretiveâ partnership between private companies and the federal government to surveil and track the movements of millions of people.
According to the EFF, the Biden Regimeâs alphabet agencies, including ICE, the FBI, US Secret Service, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Department of Defense (DoD), as well as state and local law enforcement, are being funneled hordes of private cell phone location data by private brokers who harvest the information.
This is the same tactic that Gregg Phillips, Catherine Engelbrecht, and True The Vote used for their investigation into the mail-in ballot dropbox fraud during the 2020 election. The cell phone location data collected by this group was used to identify the network of Democrat operatives who committed mass election fraud, as seen in the recently-released documentary â2000 Mules.â
Well, unfortunately â yet, predictably â the strategy has quickly been turned against the American people for the benefit of the DC Swamp.
Using similar data brokers, the feds are now able to purchase millions of records en masse about the private location of law-abiding citizens â which, surely, is something that should amount to a serious violation of our right to privacy under the 4th amendment. However, many apps on mobile devices actively track and record a userâs location at all times, which the federal government takes full advantage of.
Once a user allows an app access to their location, the company essentially has âfree reignâ to share the data with nearly no restrictions. Once it is harvested, the government comes along and buys the data in bulk and uses it in surveillance operations, according to the EFF report.
Little is known about the specifics of how this data is being used.
From EFF:
âOnce in government hands, the data is used by the military to spy on people overseas, by ICE to monitor people in and around the U.S., and by criminal investigators like the FBI and Secret ServiceâŚ
âŚWhile several contracts between data brokers and federal agencies are public records, very little is known about how those agencies actually use the services. Information has trickled out through government documents and anonymous sources.â
Some of the most prevalent sellers of this location data include Venntel â which is contracted to supply data to the IRS, the DHS and its subsidiaries ICE and CBP, the DEA, and the FBI â Babel Street â which specializes in âopen-source intelligenceâ and is âwidely usedâ by the military, intelligence agencies, private companies, and federal, state, and local law enforcement â and Anomaly 6 â which collects data via software development toolkits (SDKs) in âmore than 500â mobile apps and works closely with large government clients, including the Defense Department, the Justice Department, and the intelligence community, according to EFF.
These agencies pull data from tens of thousands of apps and social media platforms and amount to just a fraction of the multi-billion-dollar industry. The business is so lucrative that virtually every app thatâs available for mobile devices in the United States collects and records location and other sensitive data. So much so that the EFF report claims it is nearly impossible to determine which apps are safe or not.
For example, Venntel â by itself â claims to collect location data from over 80,000 apps. So, very few â if any â are safe from this type of personal privacy exposure.
Whatâs even more concerning is that the app developers themselves have no affiliation whatsoever with the large data brokers who sell the data. Itâs essentially a free for all with peopleâs private information.