Babel Street Review (2026)
Location intelligence harvesting ad data for tracking
About Babel Street
Babel Street provides location intelligence by purchasing commercial advertising data from everyday apps to track individual movements globally. Locate X product pinpoints phone locations using data from the advertising ecosystem. Government agencies including CBP, ICE, and Secret Service purchased warrantless access without judicial oversight. Exploits the commercial advertising infrastructure where innocent app permissions become surveillance tools.
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Former employee confirmed internal data handling practices are worse than publicly documented. SOC 2 compliance means nothing when the business model is the data itself.
This level of surveillance infrastructure should require public oversight and judicial authorization. Instead it operates in the shadows.
Is there any legal mechanism to force deletion of data collected without consent by these surveillance systems?