{"id":19886,"date":"2026-04-11T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T06:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/citizen-lab-law-enforcement-used-webloc-to-track-500-million-devices-via-ad-data-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T06:02:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T06:02:00","slug":"citizen-lab-law-enforcement-used-webloc-to-track-500-million-devices-via-ad-data-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/citizen-lab-law-enforcement-used-webloc-to-track-500-million-devices-via-ad-data-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizen Lab: Law Enforcement Used Webloc to Track 500 Million Devices via Ad Data info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hungarian domestic intelligence, the national police in El Salvador, and several U.S. law\u00a0enforcement and police departments have been attributed to the use of an advertising-based global geolocation surveillance system called\u00a0Webloc.<br \/>\nThe tool was developed by Israeli company Cobwebs Technologies and is now sold by its successor Penlink after\u00a0the two firms merged in July\u00a02023<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/04\/citizen-lab-law-enforcement-used-webloc.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungarian domestic intelligence, the national police in El Salvador, and several U.S. law\u00a0enforcement and police departments have been attributed to the use of an advertising-based global geolocation surveillance system called\u00a0Webloc. The tool was developed by Israeli company Cobwebs Technologies and is now sold by its successor Penlink after\u00a0the two firms merged in July\u00a02023Read More\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}