Gabriel Geiger
@gabrielgeiger.bsky.social
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Investigative journalist at Lighthouse Reports. Algorithms & surveillance. https://www.lighthousereports.com/team/gabriel-geiger/
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People often ask what it's like behind the scenes at the world's top spy tech trade fair, ISS World. Turns out it's like this bsky.app/profile/ligh...
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🧵What’s the biggest lie the surveillance industry tells? That they only sell to legal clients. That there are red lines. But what do these companies say when they think nobody is watching? We went undercover to find out
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EXCLUSIVE: This tech has been used to track heads of state, journalists, and maybe even you.

@lighthousereports.com uncovered a vast surveillance empire whose untraceable tech has been used to target people in more than 100 countries.

It has operated under the radar for decades. Until now.
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Thanks so much Dhruv, learned a lot of this stuff from you!
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Legendary work from @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social.

He and a team uncovered a trove of data from a surveillance firm — location data from thousands of phone numbers from nearly every country on Earth.

The firm had been tracking everyone from Erik Prince to journalists to Jared Leto.
The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you
Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.
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Very happy to be bringing this story to @revealnews.org this weekend.
gabrielgeiger.bsky.social
On a Saturday night I stumbled across something on the internet that made me feel like ****** my pants. A giant dataset of real surveillance operations targeting 1000s of people across nearly every country. Unraveling it and the mysterious company behind it has consumed 1.5 years of my life
gabrielgeiger.bsky.social
Tracking dissidents abroad? No problem. Tracking environmental protestors for a private mining company. Sure thing! Selling to an individual under sanction? “We can find a way.” Watch it for yourself.
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Having reported on this industry, I knew there were shady actors. But part of me thought, surely they can’t be that bad, surely there are red lines. The world isn’t a comic book. When we went behind closed doors, I realized… sometimes it is www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfWy...
This Secret Tech Tracked World Leaders, a Vatican Enemy, and Maybe You
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First Wap’s flagship product is called Altamides, it can track any phone anywhere in the world without leaving a trace - at an enormous scale. The dataset I found contained 1.5 million rows of tracking data from Altamides, including phone numbers, dates and real locations.
gabrielgeiger.bsky.social
At the center of it all, the company First Wap. Hidden behind hideous 2000s web design is a ruthless surveillance pioneer that has operated in the shadows for more than two decades.
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We found journalists, activists, actors, musicians, titans of industry, heads of state targeted. The stories that emerged tied these surveillance operations to a top level assassination of a Rwandan dissident, a journalist investigating the Vatican, and a billionaire Silicon Valley founder.