WSJ News Exclusive | U.S. Government Contractor Embedded Software in Apps to Track Phones

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A small U.S. company with ties to the U.S. defense and intelligence communities has embedded its software in numerous mobile apps, allowing it to track the movements of hundreds of millions of mobile phones world-wide

WASHINGTON—, according to interviews and documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

Anomaly Six LLC, a Virginia-based company founded by two U.S. military veterans with a background in intelligence, said in marketing material it is able to draw location data from more than 500 mobile applications, in part...

 

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Old news. Big brother has been buying data on the QT for years. Just now finding it means Feds. want to try to deflect & spin it on someone else.(Think Democratic big cities). Handmaid’s Tale: Compucards..I AM IN CONTROL! DontBeALemming ComplicitGOP

Thank you

The orange brother always shares American data with Putin.

Dirty America is blaming China shameful!

Duh. Lol. Everything is tracked. This isn't news. Companies also use your data for things you didn't agree to do lol

So ban them but no! It is ok if US does it but other countries no it’s a National security.

Nice.

Get your google maps timeline email and you will be shocked at the accuracy of your every steps... and that’s the one you agreed to have on your mobile !!

And they propaganda China data acquisition without evidence , in fact they are not innocent themselves! Liars!

Can we trust US software and app ?

I would worry about the US government and not Huawei, TikTok, and WeChat. — Trump is the problem. — He’s probably sharing information with Putin.

Huh, I figured they all did it

Snowden said it long ago

This is bombshell news. Edward Snowden news.

So like Google, they know how often I eat at McDonald's?

Where are the privacy rights ?

Bring back the BlackBerry

How could people always use rumors and lies, but without any proof? This is the real news.

No! Stealing in America isn't stealing, because US is a democratic country!

Shirley_IMC Bravo

The US gov is behind such scandals as PRISM and ECHELON. It conducts wire-tapping and mass surveillance around the globe, and these wrongful acts are already an open secret. It is not qualified to build a coalition of ‘clean countries' because itself is dirty allover.

Righteousness Americans... rubbish

American hypocrisy...

Got this 'no-reply' email from Google googlemaps they are not even trying to hide it. This is fucking creepy

Snowden is right.

Everything the US accuses others of doing, it does tenfold.

expecting USA not to spy on whole world is like expecting lion to be vegetarian

Not SpokespersonCHN is our enemy it's POTUS realDonaldTrump UnitedStates surveillance state. We need urgently a new internet & new App providers. WhatsApp is infested with certain MENA state software. Who is AnomalySix ? Let us look backstage.

but TikTok!

They have been in our phones for many years. It's disingenuous to now claim an exclusive, that anyone paying attention has known for years.

Google, facebookapp Is this added to your Apps?

Actually all the Internet tech companies collect and track data from users, but when it comes to Chinese comoanies, it does matters.

We need an executive order to stop this invasion of privacy

Lol I'm sure Google/apple don't track you. Yup. They would never do that

Dang! Now they know how many times I have gone through the McDonald's drive through ----- Just like Google knows

J edgar hoover would be so proud

Why are we surprised? Wikileaks had published years back.

Thanks for your work in CRM tech GregForMontana - and your salesman skills SteveDaines - for making this possible! You were pioneers in spyware and exploiting consumers and you must be so proud.

But China!!!

Facebook?

I guess those tinfoil hats were right.

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