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There’s a company with untraceable tech that can find you anywhere.
Operating from its base in Jakarta, Indonesia, where permissive export laws have allowed its surveillance business to flourish, First Wap has quietly built a phone-tracking empire, with a footprint extending from the Vatican to the Middle East to Silicon Valley.
Its system leaves no trace on the phones it tracks. It doesn’t require a target to click on a malicious link or show any of the telltale signs of remote monitoring. And it’s operated under the radar for decades.
Until now.
Investigative journalists at Lighthouse Reports obtained a secret data trove revealing that the vast surveillance domain’s tech has been used to target politicians, corporate execs, and even Jared Leto. Mostly spanning from 2007 to 2014, it’s one of the largest disclosures to date of the inner workings of the global surveillance industry. The system does not just list the cell phone numbers of people it’s monitored; it also offers, in many cases, precise maps of their movements, showing where they went and when.
The company, First Wap, denied knowledge of any misuse of its technology. But the evidence found by Lighthouse Reports tells a different story.
Check it out.
—Arianna Coghill
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