The Wall Street Journal reported that a small American company with ties to the US defense and intelligence communities has embedded its software in several mobile device applications, allowing it to track the movements of hundreds of millions of cell phones around the world, according to interviews and documents the newspaper said. She has seen it.
The newspaper quoted the company "Anomaly Six LLC", which is headquartered in Virginia, saying that it is able to extract location data from more than 500 mobile phone applications, either through its own software development group, or through software embedded directly in some applications in a manner that allows For a company to obtain the location of the phone, if consumers allow the application that contains the software to access the coordinates of the phone.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the company, founded by two former soldiers with a background in intelligence, is working as a contractor to provide location data products globally to US government branches and private clients.
The newspaper quoted the company as saying that it prohibits the sale of mobile traffic data in the United States to non-governmental private customers.