{"id":44998,"date":"2020-08-17T17:02:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T22:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=44998"},"modified":"2020-08-17T17:02:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T22:02:59","slug":"engadget-secret-service-bought-location-data-pulled-from-common-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=44998","title":{"rendered":"Engadget: Secret Service bought location data pulled from common apps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Engadget: <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/secret-service-bought-location-data-locate-x-165531624.html\">Secret Service bought location data pulled from common apps<\/a> by Christine Fisher:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The Secret Service paid a private company for access to location data generated by common smartphone apps, Motherboard reports. Internal documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request show that the agency spent $35,844 for a one-year subscription to Babel Street\u2019s product Locate X, which tracks the location of devices via data harvested from popular apps.<\/p><p>As Motherboard notes, the glaring issue with this contract is that it allows the law enforcement agency to buy information that it would normally need a warrant or a court order to obtain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engadget: Secret Service bought location data pulled from common apps by Christine Fisher:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-third-party-doctrine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44999,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44998\/revisions\/44999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}