Caitlin Sarian explains how police use Fog Reveal, a commercial tool that buys location data from apps and brokers to track people's movements. Law enforcement can see where you go: protests, clinics, anywhere. Turn off location access in settings and use Incogni to request data removal.
If you have a smartphone, police can track where you've been without a warrant. And no one's talking about it. This is the surveillance files where we expose how the government and tech watch your every move. It's called Fog Reveal, and police departments across the US have already used it. Here's how it works. Your phone shares your location with apps, even innocent ones like games, weather, or photo editors. Those apps then sell your data to data brokers, and law enforcement buys it back to build a detailed map of your past movements. Been to a protest, a medical clinic, a private meeting. They can track it and you never even know. I've worked in cybersecurity and data protection for over 12 years. This is the kind of commercial surveillance that slips through the legal cracks and becomes business as usual unless you stop it. The best way to protect yourself is to limit your phone's access to the locations in your settings. But that's just the start. Your data is already out there on hundreds of data broker sites. And that's how they keep tracking you. That's why I recommend using Incogni. They file legal opt out requests on your behalf and get your personal data removed from those sites so it's not available to be bought in the first place. If you're serious about privacy, comment Incogni and I'll send you the link and go to my page. Cybersecurity girl. Got every video you need to learn how to lock this down. Follow along for more surveillance file series and share this with your conspiracy theory friends.
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