#Privacy#Surveillance#GeoLocation#DataBrokers#DataBrokerage#Bazze: "A San Francisco-based data broker claiming to have defense agency partnerships in the United States and United Kingdom is advertising access to “real-time” location data and a suite of other information, which Western governments can use to track foreign individuals in sensitive locations overseas. Called Bazze, the company markets a platform that can enable searches for people in embassies, consulates, and military bases, underscoring governments’ growing reliance on data brokers to access vast quantities of intelligence on global citizens from commercial sources.
Bazze is part of an often opaque data broker network that mines information from digital ad firms, cellular providers and public records databases for marketing insights and behavior trends. It claims to offer an easy way to ask targeted questions of disparate data sets that would otherwise need to be analyzed individually. In an interview with Forbes, Bazze founder Samuel Semwangu described the company as a marketplace for data. He was quick to note that it facilitates access only — not analysis. For that, “customers must use other tools and analysis they conduct on their own,” he told Forbes."