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Heritage Foundation Claims to Use Location Data to Track Trump Shooter's Movements

Organizations are now openly broadcasting the once dirty secret of the location data industry: it can be used to track specific people.
A map showing Crooks' face and some location pins.
Image: Oversight Project.

The Oversight Project, a part of the conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation, claims to have used mobile ad location data to map the movements of Thomas Matthew Crooks in the lead up to his attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump earlier this month.

The organization, which also authored a blueprint for a second Trump term called Project 2025, claims to have used the data to find devices that are “linked” to Crooks—perhaps his own device or those of people he knows—and follow where they went over time.

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