see url:
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/app-taps-unwitting-users-abroad-to-gather-open-source-intelligence-11624544026
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A network of gig workers world-wide is unwittingly providing basic
intelligence to the U.S. military using only a consumer app on their
smartphones.
San Francisco-based Premise Data Corp. pays users, many of them in the
developing world, to complete basic tasks for small payments. Typical
assignments involve snapping photos, filling out surveys or doing other
basic data collection or observational reporting such as counting ATMs
or reporting on the price of consumer goods like food.
About half of the company’s clients are private businesses seeking
commercial information, Premise says. That can involve assignments like
gathering market information on the footprint of competitors, scouting
locations and other basic, public observational tasks. Premise in recent
years has also started working with the U.S. military and foreign
governments, marketing the capability of its flexible, global, gig-based
workforce to do basic reconnaissance and gauge public opinion.
Premise is one of a growing number of companies that straddle the divide
between consumer services and government surveillance and rely on the
proliferation of mobile phones as a way to turn billions of devices into
sensors that gather open-source information useful to government
security services around the world.
The company says 90% of its work is gauging public sentiment and
understanding human geography by paying users to fill out surveys,
yielding data that it says has uses for commercial businesses,
nonprofits and governments. A smaller number of projects, it says,
involve asking users to go out into the world to complete tasks such as
taking pictures or walking a predetermined route. Sometimes those tasks
involve collecting data on nearby wireless signals or other cellphones,
the company said, comparing the practice to how Google and Apple map
Wi-Fi networks with phones using their operating systems.
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