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Understanding Digital Dragnets: Surveillance in the Age of Smartphones
['Justin Hendrix']
The Tech Policy Press Podcast
Today, I’m joined by the two reporters who spent months trying to understand how a little known company in Virginia goes about acquiring commercially available data and selling it to police in departments across the country-- global investigative journalist Garance Burke and national investigative reporter Jason Dearen. So, the way we understand it and based on what Fog would say in its marketing materials about where it gets its data is that there are at least hundreds of apps that are gathering data or hoovering up data, sales data, ad ID data that is provided by these apps to Venntel.