{"id":1630197,"date":"2022-09-01T20:49:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T00:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1630197"},"modified":"2022-09-01T20:49:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T00:49:58","slug":"police-using-ad-based-software-to-track-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/police-using-ad-based-software-to-track-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Police using ad-based software to track phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpolice-using-ad-based-software-to-track-phones%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1630197&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2744288\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2744288\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2744288\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AP22236706319849.jpg\" alt=\"AP Illustration\/Peter Hamlin\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AP22236706319849.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AP22236706319849-777x437-1.jpg 777w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AP22236706319849-373x210-1.jpg 373w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AP22236706319849-768x432-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AP22236706319849-1536x864-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AP22236706319849-180x101.jpg 180w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AP22236706319849-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AP22236706319849-120x67.jpg 120w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2744288\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AP Illustration\/Peter Hamlin<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 5:20 PM PT \u2013 Thursday, September 1, 2022<\/h5>\n<p><span>Law enforcement agencies across the nation are using a powerful piece of software to track Americans\u2019 phones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The program known as Fog Reveal, has been used to search billions of records from mobile devices and harnesses the data to create analyses known among law enforcement as \u201cpatterns of life.\u201d Davin Hall, a former police data analyst, spoke in detail about the software.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cYou can see all of the locations that it\u2019s been,\u201d Hall said. \u201cYou can see where it\u2019s moving around. You can see where it\u2019s stopping. You can see where people, um, where people live, where people work.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Sold by Fog Data Science LLC, Fog revealed that it has been used since 2018 in criminal investigations, although the tool is rarely mentioned in court records which defense attorneys say makes it harder for them to properly defend their clients in cases in which the technology was used. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cThat ad ID number will ping periodically,\u201d Hall said. \u201cAnd it gives off the number, the time and the location in that ping.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The program takes advantage of the fact that every mobile device is assigned a unique advertising identification number. This allows apps with location services to target consumers with promotions. For as little as $7,500 dollars a year, Fog Data Science offers the service. The service uses ad-ID to track a device\u2019s path when location services are enabled. However, the concern is that most of the time officers can use Fog Reveal without a warrant to search for personal information about nearly anyone.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cI don\u2019t think it should be used by law enforcement,\u201d Hall remarked. \u201cAnd at the very least, I think people should be aware that it is being used, and that this kind of surveillance is going on.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The Electronic Frontier Foundation led an investigation into how the program is used. It was found that Fog Data Science has created a search engine for officers to create geo-fenced device searches to find the so-called \u201cpatterns of life.\u201d The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) countered the claim that Fog\u2019s product only contains anonymous data and no personally identifiable information. Bennett Cyphers, a technologist at Electronic Frontier Foundation spoke on the topic. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe Fourth Amendment is supposed to protect us from being spied on by the government. It\u2019s supposed to mean that the government can\u2019t go into your phone and take out intimate data about your life without legal process,\u201d said Cyphers. \u201cSo, if police aren\u2019t using, aren\u2019t acquiring warrants before using a service like Fog, that\u2019s essentially buying their way around the Fourth Amendment.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Fog Reveal has successfully been used to solve multiple missing person and murder cases. The cases include a hit and run and the case of Sydney Sutherland, a 25-year-old nurse who was kidnapped and killed in Arkansas in 2020. Arkansas prosecutor, Kevin Metcalf, is using this as evidence to advocate for the use of Fog Reveal in law enforcement.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cIf we do use the very sensitive date, we\u2019re looking at: Is somebody in danger?\u201d Is a life in danger? asked Metcalf. \u201cThat\u2019s what we, we push the limits on investigative methodology. How does technology apply, and where does that technology connect to other technologies and open-source data and legal process.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Fog claimed in a written response to the Associated Press that it cannot disclose information about its customers, but it does not access or have anything to do with personally identifiable information and is merely leveraging commercially available data.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/patel-fbi-seeking-revenge-for-failed-russia-collusion-hoax\/\">Patel: FBI Seeking Revenge For Failed Russia Collusion Hoax<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP Illustration\/Peter Hamlin OAN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1209,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1630197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1630197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1630197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1630197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}