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@EFF Inside Fog Data Science, the Secretive Company Selling Mass Surveillance to Local Police
We’re the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We defend your civil liberties in a digital world. A year-long investigation by EFF has uncovered Fog Data Science, a mass surveillance company that buys the geolocation of hundreds of millions of devices in the U.S. and maps them for police to search, often without a warrant.
You’ve never heard of Fog Data Science, but you should have. It’s the company turning your cell phone’s geolocation data into one of the most disturbing and wide-reaching surveillance systems ever used by police in the U.S.
Read our investigation here.
Inside Fog Data Science, the Secretive Company Selling Mass Surveillance to Local Police
FOG DATA SCIENCE REVEAL PORTAL USER MANUAL
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. Foreword
II. Accessing the Fog Reveal Portal
A. Password and Sign in
B. Overview Screen
C. Downloads/Recent Updates
D. Queries/Query Limits
E. The My cases Box
F. A New Case
G. Opening the REVEAL Portal
III. Portal Orientation, Nomenclature and Symbols
A. Mapping Tools
B. Finding a Location/Search
C. The Portal’s Analytic and Diagnostic Tools
1. Need Help
a. My Account
b. Running Queries
c. Technical Support
d. Work Space
e. Query Results
f. Documents8
2. The Users Name
a. My Info
b. My Cases’
c. New Cases
d. User Group
(1) Edit User Group
(2) Supervisor’s Actions
(3) Supervisor’s Edit
(4) Add New User
(5) View Cases (Read Only)
e. Change Password/Log Out
f. Hide or Show Flagged Signals
3. Cases
a. Editing User Names, Access
b. Switching/Editing Cases
4. Query Results
a. Edit Folders
b. New Folder Editing
c. Switch/Edit Folders
d. Query List
e. Selecting a
(1) Create a Common Device Query
(2) A Fenced Query.
(3) A Device Query
(4) Selecting A Query
5. Query Settings
a. Changing a Query or Running a New Query
b. New Query Choices
(1) Draw New Geofences
(2) Keep Geofences
(3) Query By Device ID (s).