Many wealthy and influential people visited the infamous sex offender's secret island. A new report claims their mobile data gave them away.
A data broker compiled a report on the geographical movements of visitors to Jeffrey Epstein’s “pedophile island,” culling it from mobile data that it acquired via unknown means, a new investigation by Wired reveals. The company in question, which was formerly called Near Intelligence, confirmed to Wired that it had created such a report but refused to give details about who commissioned the report or what it was for.
The coordinates point to mansions in gated communities in Michigan and Florida; homes in Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket in Massachusetts; a nightclub in Miami; and the sidewalk across the street from Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York City. For years, privacy advocates have warned that the data brokerage industry is a civil liberties nightmare that threatens the very basic tenets of personal digital autonomy. This story would seem to hammer that point home.
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