This Surveillance Company Claims It Can Track Nearly Any Car in Real-Time

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  1. hawki

    hawki Registered Member

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    "Cars Have Your Location. This Spy Firm Wants to Sell It to the U.S. Military...

    ‘The Ulysses Group’ is pitching a powerful surveillance technology to the U.S. government.

    A surveillance contractor [Ulysses Group] that has previously sold services to the U.S. military is advertising a product that it says can locate the real-time locations of specific cars in nearly any country on Earth. It says it does this by using data collected and sent by the cars and their components themselves, according to a document obtained by Motherboard.

    'Ulysses can provide our clients with the ability to remotely geolocate vehicles in nearly every country except for North Korea and Cuba on a near real time basis,' the document, written by contractor The Ulysses Group, reads. 'Currently, we can access over 15 billion vehicle locations around the world every month,' the document adds..."

    https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7adn9/car-location-data-telematics-us-military-ulysses-group
     
  2. Palancar

    Palancar Registered Member

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    Isn't that just lovely to know, NOT
     
  3. caspian

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    Truly bizarre. I would have never even dreamed that something like this was even possible
     
  4. cruelsister

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    What these articles should also point out is that Ulysses has a total of 4 employees and is run out of their house (a really nice house in a very pretty location), In short, I really think that we are safe.

    But if one really wishes to obsess over surveillance, one would be better served by worrying about Palantir
     
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