The United States for the first time used global monitoring of human movements. The system was applied as part of the investigation of the laundering of funds stolen by 4 attackers as a result of hacking the cryptocurrency exchange MT. GOX in 2014.
The American government collaborated with Saber, providing services to travel organizations around the world, developing software and other technologies. The service transmitted information about the displacements of the suspects throughout the year. The first mention of the use of such a powerful tool caused public anxiety regarding privacy and data security.
In the past two years, the Forbes publication has been conducting a judicial battle, trying to reveal the secrets of global monitoring systems (GDS), which are also used in Saber. Similar Saber organizations allow traveling companies to be reservation, cooperate with airlines, hotels and ground transport companies, so tracking travelers with their help is quite simple.
Information information is very useful for law enforcement agencies that focus on the law for all courts (all writs act). This law allows the authorities to “issue all the necessary requirements necessary or appropriate in support of their jurisdiction and corresponding to the use and principles of law.”
However, this month it became known that the case against Saber and illegal disclosure of data was instituted back in 2016, but remained under the scrap of secrecy. This was due to the investigation of hacking MT. Gox. The decision allowed the Ministry of Justice to avoid judicial disputes on the disclosure of private information.
“It is anxious that information about movements is now actively used. It is not only about access to the history of travel, but also about obtaining information about the movement of a person in real time,” said Albert Fox Kan, director of the project for supervision of Observation technologies.
Kan also emphasized that law enforcement agencies continue to cooperate with travel agencies to collect information that they themselves could not have been legally gained. “Courts and Congress should resolve this issue and ban such practices,” he called.
In the context of the cryptocurrency scandal investigation, the