data brokers

RSG #337: How To Investigate Government Purchases of Commercial Location Data

Your phone knows where you sleep, work, worship, shop, protest, receive medical care, and spend Tuesday evenings when you told everyone you were staying home. That location history can travel through mobile applications, advertising systems, software development kits, data aggregators, and commercial brokers. Government agencies have purchased access to commercially available information rather than obtaining …

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RSG #319: How To Investigate a Government Contractor’s Hidden Subcontractors

A government contract may display the name of one large corporation, but that does not mean one company is performing all the work. The prime contractor may quietly divide the project among data brokers, cloud providers, consultants, software developers, staffing companies, and surveillance vendors. Those hidden companies can collect the information, build the system, train …

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